Tag: travel
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“Karne” (Report Card
Half-finished Prismacolor sketch of the sea, just north of Foça Well, all the world’s school children are onto their summer holidays after getting their report cards for the year. In Turkey, the last day of school is the much-anticipated moment when your kids carry home their “karne” and parents celebrate the accomplishments of their offspring.…
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“Top 10 Ideas From Amongst Which At Least 1 Must Be Chosen Before Another Idea Is Had”
You may have noticed that I haven’t written anything in a while, and that I haven’t posted any pictures of nice-and-shiny artwork, or even rough-and-tumble work-in-progress. Of course, you may not have noticed, because you were busy doing things in the actual, three-dimensional world rather than (how shall I put this?) “spending time enjoying your…
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Running with the Cows (or, “Til the Cows Come Home – Georgia Road Trip, Part 10)
So, where was I? Right… we were leaving Aphrodisias, and I was giving Harun the option of camping at a place about 2k from the site, or driving all the way to Pamukkale (which was not really all that far – we could make it in time for dinner). I was betting ’50-50′ (under normal conditions,…
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Georgia Underground (The Caves of Prometheus) (Georgia Road Trip, Part 9)
I hope you enjoy reading something that I can assure you is lighter and more uplifting than the current international bestseller, “Woe to Us: How I Learned to Survive the Elections and Love The Donald”…. To pick up the nearly lost thread of my Georgian Road Trip saga, I’d like to point out that the best…
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Georgian Beaches (Georgia Road Trip, Part 8)
When Harun and I planned our Road Trip to the Republic of Georgia, well, as Lou Reed once said, “those were different times”. I know I promised (you and me both) that I’d keep up with the story of the road trip, including photos during and artwork after, but what with coups, bombs, witch hunts, elections, more…
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Kobuleti, Kobuleti – It’s Better than Bodrum AND Antalya… (Georgia Road Trip, Part 7)
I hope you enjoy reading something that I can assure you is lighter and more uplifting than the current international bestseller, “Woe to Us: How I Learned to Survive the Elections and Love The Donald”…. To pick up the nearly lost thread of my Georgian Road Trip saga, I’d like to point out that the best…
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Across the Border, Finally. (Georgia Road Trip, Part 6)
A horizontal line drawn from a point midway along a moon-shaped cove on the eastern end of the Black Sea represents the end of the Republic of Turkey and the beginning of the Republic of Georgia. To the north of the line, sunbathers are sprawled on the sand. To the south of the line, the beach is empty. Instead,…
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Aphrodisias is for Lovers (Georgia Road Trip, Pt. 2)
Aphrodiasas was the first scheduled stop on our epic road trip. It’s not exactly close to Bodrum, and it’s not really on the way to anywhere, but I’d heard it was a great place (“10 best ancient cities in Turkey”), and had a sculpture studio that was famous in its day (5th century? I forget.…
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Thanks, Nancy! (How has your summer been?)
SO yes, I’ve been out of touch; but now I’m back in touch. In fact, the past month has done wonders for letting me “get in touch” with the state of my nation, Turkey. So (thanks, Nancy), as I started to explain to a friend of mine in NY when she wrote and asked, “How…
Deborah Semel Demirtaş 