Day 22 Istanbul

 

Days 22 Istanbul

Weather: very pleasant

Activities: Art with M, great dinner at Yemi

Day 23: short report is that our plane was ready to go at the gate when the earthquake hit. DB thinks she felt it, THB (tho not yet asleep) was oblivious. We took off a few minutes later, made it safely to SFO, and now working on unpacking and washing clothes

combo bath/shower, not easy to figure out how to get water to come out of rain head; bathroom small and awkward

empty slot

Ihimayman retrospective, a number of work are for sale, these are painted using tar instead of paint, the ones available are 4,600 USD

Pera Hotel, site of movies and books; Agatha Chrisstie's Orient Express the most famous

Marcel on left

this guy is everywhere and prolific...this shot from a video

another bathroom first for THB: especially for Covid, no touch doors; once in, THB could not figure out how to "lock" the door

famous painter

his most famous work

also an archeologist 

another great exhibit

no idea who these guys are

these locals caught using a scale

fresh from the oven

roving knife shapener

roving trash collector

abandoned houses from when Greeks (1955) were chased out of Istanbul - as well as some Jews 

Russian church built inn Vienna and moved to Istanbul and became a Bulgarian church

old synagogue entrance

lunch at another museum cafe

fish and chips for THB

quinoa salad for DB

trash can in an elevator? another first for THB

German minimalist, we saw his work in the 1970s...so we believe

Judd like...lots of work with cloth

This guy works BIG!!

all plastic

another old synagogue

Greek school, very big campus with less than 50 students

or maybe this is the church: Russian church built inn Vienna and moved to Istanbul and became a Bulgarian church

another way to fix the a/c (shades of the WindSurf attempt)

the can on the left needed 3 minutes of  maintenance before yielding a half bowl of some unknown grain