HeyJaredCherrypix by Deniz
This one is about travels & sea & books & change & adaptation. For anyone dreaming about distant lands and open seas.
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Yerebatan Cistern – Where the Gods Play Backgammon (opens the original)
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It was one of my first-ever visits to the Cistern.Just in front of me, a little boy stopped dead on the stairs. He stared at the broken columns, the stone lying where it fell, the shadows pooling between them."Look, Dad. The gods are playing backgammon here."Everyone around was silent for a second.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2FcL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fim
The Art of Doing Nothing in an Istanbul Hammam (opens the original)
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There are few things I find more relaxing than lying on the göbektaşı, the warm marble slab in an old Istanbul hammam, doing absolutely nothing.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="438" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NUha!,w_1
Laodikia: The City That Had Almost Everything. (opens the original)
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I first went to Laodikia on a hot June afternoon with a group of friends.We’d just finished an excellent lunch of Denizli Kebabı, which deserves its own separate article, and it’s fair to say I wasn’t in my most historically curious mood. I thought I was going to find yet another ancient city on yet another hillside in a country that has housed more civilisations than one can remember.Then we started walking along the colonnaded decumanus, as impressively constructed as the ones in Ephesus or Je
What does it mean to be a true Mediterranean? (opens the original)
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It means, for instance, having your body clock adjusted to the rhythm of the sea, the sun and the moon.It means knowing the wind by name. Feeling the northerly on your face and smelling the southerly in the heaviness of the air; treating the shade in the midday heat as the world’s most precious possession.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RJeE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpub
Büyükada: An Island of Stories (opens the original)
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Büyükada, the largest of the Princes’ Islands lies only a short ferry ride from İstanbul.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1854" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_3M9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:
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