A Year in the Near East

Leave for one weekend and it seems as though the whole world passes you by.  We took a shotgun trip to Amasra on the Black Sea coast this weekend, really for no other reason that because we needed to get out of Ankara. The trip was hardly worth the effort: 36 hours total, 10 on a bus, another 2 split between dolmuşlar and service buses, 8 sleeping. Most importantly, 6 hours of unnecessarily extensive drinking. Midterms had taken their toll on us. The pictures from Amasra are really cool and the way the fog from the sea hit the coastline was just surreal. I will have some pictures posted ASAP. When I arrived home our water had been turned off because we hadn’t yet paid our water bill. So I’m a little dirty. Photos of Amasra, not of me being dirty.

For now, here are the current events in Turkey…