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Nein, ist ein donkey: July 2010
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Nein, ist ein donkey. Sunday, July 18, 2010. And now for something completely different. Well the last one was a bit earnest and wordy, so I thought that I probably ought to balance the tone with some frivolous holiday snaps. (I apologise in advance for the blatant showing off of my apparently idyllic life - I could quite happily bitch about the drawbacks but I will save that for private correspondence. You lucky people you.). Anyway, enough of all that. The other big development in my life is the Gr...
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Nein, ist ein donkey: September 2010
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Nein, ist ein donkey. Thursday, September 16, 2010. Last week was the end of Ramadan, which means a 3 and a ½ day public holiday, and another chance to go skipping off on an extended weekend away. (Honestly, there’s a hell of a lot written about the religious/secular divide. And I reckon this trip's travel arrangements, and my mostly* good humoured acquiesence to it, represents something of a graduation from this Turkish/S School of Enforced Flexibility. Anyway, the tedious details are something like this.
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Lez Be Informed: July 2010
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Nein, ist ein donkey: Society, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dolmuş.
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Nein, ist ein donkey. Sunday, July 4, 2010. Society, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dolmuş. I just wrote loads of pretentious stuff on the breakdown of society in England as compared with Turkey, but then realised that it was pretentious, besides as I have neither any sort of social studies qualification nor any rounded experience of anything outside the two major cities of the two countries, I'm not really best placed to be making sweeping statements about such things. And it's *nice*...
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Nein, ist ein donkey: Turkey Top Ten
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Nein, ist ein donkey. Sunday, January 9, 2011. I was going to do this before Christmas in the spirit of 'Best X of the Year' lists, but it appears I haven't got round to it. So I'm going to re-brand it an 'I've been here a year, and this is what one year's experience looks like' list. (I'm late for that, too, but only by a couple of weeks, and anyway you don't know that. Erm.). 1 Breakfast as the main meal of the day. Speaking of which,. Not like watered down bizarro out of season half-version of itself!
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Nein, ist ein donkey: And all that *dancing*
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Nein, ist ein donkey. Sunday, February 13, 2011. And all that *dancing*. To quote young Miss JRME. Who herself was quoting the wonderful Bernard Black. Who, by the way, S is convinced is a long lost relative of hers. I am not unconvinced.). Which is what I wanted to tell you about. There is A LOT of dancing here. Given a dancefloor, or not as the case may be. People will quite happily break out into spontaneous dancing. I hesitate about saying this, but, well, that part does come across a little bit gay.
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Nein, ist ein donkey: March 2011
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Nein, ist ein donkey. Friday, March 4, 2011. Neither here nor there. One of the things that seems to fascinate people the most about İstanbul is the idea of it straddling 2 continents. Some of the spark for the interest is probably the whole 'East meets West' thing, a supposed dichotomy that I honestly don't understand (don't get me started on the cultural similarities for me of tea houses and pubs.) but which is rather nice sounding and does definitely help sell the place to visitors. But there's a fair...
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Nein, ist ein donkey: Neither here nor there
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Nein, ist ein donkey. Friday, March 4, 2011. Neither here nor there. One of the things that seems to fascinate people the most about İstanbul is the idea of it straddling 2 continents. Some of the spark for the interest is probably the whole 'East meets West' thing, a supposed dichotomy that I honestly don't understand (don't get me started on the cultural similarities for me of tea houses and pubs.) but which is rather nice sounding and does definitely help sell the place to visitors. But there's a fair...