I have, at least for now, become quite enamoured of a Turkish style breakfast, with lots of fresh fruits and salad and a bit of cheese or yoghurt. This morning breakfast was a platter of peaches, figs, buffalo mozzerella, cucumbers, olives and tomatoes, along with my usual chai. I have decided to have something similar […]
Past and present
In the morning we went to Beşiktaş to the breakfast street, and then strolled through the neighbourhood and up to what was once an Ottoman weekend cottage set in the countryside and today is a pair of baroque houses set in a small park tightly engirdled by busy road. The gardens were pleasant, with residents […]
Golden city
Our flat in Istanbul has the most ridiculous views. One series of windows looks out over the Bosphorus, with the Hagia Sofia and the Blue Mosque in clear view. Another window faces down a narrow old street, at the end of which is the Galata tower. In the evenings, at sunset, the coast of Asia […]
Long day’s travel
We’ve arrived. We left Tainan around noon, a taxi to the HSR and then a train ride to Taoyuan. It was the usual one and a half hour, which seems to be the journey time in Taiwan, regardless of where one is going. At the station we were met by the Boddhisattva and the Woodland […]