My new printer has a memory card reader that has allowed me to finally get my cell-phone photos onto my computer. So now I have one more reason to be happy about it. I think it can certainly be great for the blog. This week, mostly uncommented Istanbul photos:

Day 2
Blue Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii)

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Tuesday this week was my 28th birthday.

For some reason I was thinking for a while that I really needed to make this a birthday post. Description of how I celebrated this year, how I've celebrated other years, presents, my thoughts on birthday celebrations in general, getting older...

I'm not gonna do that. Maybe next year. But I will say that I got ( Read more... )

...or I can has skanner, Part II.

First, this is what the famous notebook looks like.


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Anna says LiveJournal probably gets the rights to what I write here. I hope that's not true...

Back on Sunday, I got my 15 seconds of fame at Narbonic: Director's Cut. Check it out, man! (You have to click the comic twice to get to my contribution, or just use this link instead.)

And now, some Istanbul. Getting to the end now...

(Earlier Istanbul ( Read more... )

Earlier Istanbul posts at http://martinho.livejournal.com/6918.html , http://martinho.livejournal.com/7372.html , http://martinho.livejournal.com/7430.html , http://martinho.livejournal.com/7691.html , http://martinho.livejournal.com/8409.html , http://martinho.livejournal.com/8573.html .

Day 7
I still had a cold. Everyone except possibly mom was ( Read more... )

Earlier Istanbul posts at http://martinho.livejournal.com/6918.html , http://martinho.livejournal.com/7372.html , http://martinho.livejournal.com/7430.html , http://martinho.livejournal.com/7691.html , http://martinho.livejournal.com/8409.html .

And now, Day 6.
New Year's came. Everyone was tired. I woke up with a cold which stayed with me until we ( Read more... )

Earlier Istanbul posts at http://martinho.livejournal.com/6918.html , http://martinho.livejournal.com/7372.html , http://martinho.livejournal.com/7430.html , http://martinho.livejournal.com/7691.html .

Day 5 in Istanbul was New Year's Eve and also the day we moved to another hotel. After the last breakfast at the guesthouse which I still haven't ( Read more... )

These last few weeks I've taken the habit of writing these posts first not on the computer, but in a notebook - in fact that same legendary notebook I bought on our 2nd day in istanbul. It started when I had to run off to work in the middle of the writing of my in-depth exposé of the recently mentioned second day in Istanbul. I wanted the post to ( Read more... )

Continued most immediately from here.

This was the day we went to Asia for the first time in three of our lives. We took the ferry to Kadaköy, which I eventually jotted down in my little notebook was "different, cosy". I also noted that it had "few tourists" - even with the "hell, we are  tourists" attitude I try to show it seems it's hard to not ( Read more... )

(Continued from last week.)

Our second day in Istanbul was December 28, a Thursday. In two days, it is a month ago. It was, for us, a rather touristy day and (at least for me) quite wonderful, on the whole. 
First, we had the first of four breakfasts at the guest house where we stayed these first days.  It included, among other things, much-needed ( Read more... )