These pictures had better be worth a thousand words because I'm not writing the thousand words

[lolaraincoat]

So I have been meaning to write up my Deep Thoughts about our trip last month to western Crete, Athens, and Istanbul - thoughts about nationalisms and histories, continuities and discontinuties in uses of the material remains of the past, grilled fish, 19th c. archeology as the ruination of ruins, the spiritual uses of beauty, the ways in which

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[elgoose]

Your pictures are locked! I can't seeeeeee them!

[lolaraincoat]

Crap! Sorry! Fixing now!

[elgoose]

This is wonderful. Thank you for posting it all!

xoxo

[lolaraincoat]

Thank you for reading! and looking! twice!

*mwah!*

[tekalynn]

Can't see the pictures, but I LOVE the descriptions! It sounds like a wonderful trip.

[lolaraincoat]

See, now I'm wondering if just letting people imagine the pictures would be more fun for everyone, in the end. But it's fixed now, anyway - I hope.

And yes it was an awesome, fabulous, wonderful trip.

[cordelia_v]

I love the descriptions, too. Good luck with the pictures. I find that either Photobucket or Flickr is fine. Just upload the photos to Flickr, if LJ is being balky, and link to your album there.

[lolaraincoat]

Okay, fixed now! I think.

[cordelia_v]

Oooh. Shiny! Thanks for showing us those. Now *I* want to go to Istanbul.

[lolaraincoat]

You totally should. It's amazing. It helps if you have a little experience with relatively poor megapoli, I will say: much better to be able to say, "wow, this is so much less scary than Mexico City" rather than "yikes, this smells much worse than Paris" when you're there. But within the category of very very large cities in industrialized but not wealthy countries with long pasts, it's a winner.

Now I really want to see more of the Islamic world, too - Indonesia! Morocco! Nigeria!

[isiscolo]

Oooh, pictures! It sounds like a fabulous time.

[lolaraincoat]

It was pretty great. We were very lucky that Fishwhistle had a conference in such a cool location.

[ptyx]

LOLOL, Lenin as a ninja, that's what I thought when I saw the drawing.

Lovely pics, great descriptions! :-)

[lolaraincoat]

It was right near some anarchist graffiti but I'm not sure they were related in any way, unless one was a response to the other?