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My mother’s most recent travel report from Turkey:
Nearly had enough Mosques.
At least if you visit Malaysia you won’t be worriedby not enough Hindu temples - they are all going.
Posted by WeekByWeek on 2006 09 24 at 08:59 PM • permalinkUnfortunately they have an excellent franchise manager. This century’s Starbucks and the product is just as crap.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 09 24 at 09:21 PM • permalinkFunny, In January when I was in Italy I sent this message home:
Just about had enough Cathedrals
By that stage, however I was well and truly sick of other tourists asking me directions in broken Italian. Lost track of the number of times I had to tell them I didn’t know where I was either, and that I don’t speak Italian.
If your Mum returns via San Francisco, she should avoid the Mosque-oni Convention Center.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 09 24 at 11:57 PM • permalinkTim, presumably your mum was inspired by Peter Costello to go and see the only Moslem country that has managed to separate church and state. There has been some back-sliding since Ataturk’s day, but the army exists as a bulwark of the western progreesive ideal which inspired Ataturk, to rein in the islamists.
The people are very friendly and not like the Arabs (whom the Turks, having ruled them for many centuries, tend to look down on).
If your mother is sick of the mosques, there are plenty of Greek, Roman, Hittite and Hellenistic sites to see. Or there’s great shopping at Istanbul’s famous covered market, the capali carsi.
#15 Not to mention the recent Istanbul Court decision to uphold the right of a female author to write an account of the Armenian Holocaust (even if in a work of fiction).
That Judge barely made it out of the court and home alive, but he made it.
Trying desperately to find a link anywhere to the decision.
(also, I hope your mother got a chance to go to Çatal Hüyük—described as “the oldest city in the world”. Man, I’d trade my last pieces of papyrii porn from Elephantis to go there.)
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 09 25 at 02:14 AM • permalinkNo doubt this will be held up as proof of Tim’s Islamaphobic upbringing…
Of course anybody who has actually been to Turkey (as I have) will know exactly what she was talking about.
It’s no different to endless oversize Buddhas and temples around South-East Asia. You’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. It takes you 5-10 of them to realise that however.
Of course I bet after being accosted for the hundredth time in the street, she’s right over rugs as well.
Dan
Mum went to China. She was on a bus tour, and she was ill on the trip and dragged herself out of the bus at every stop to see each tourist vista. The last one they stopped at was The Great Wall, again. She was too ill and had had enough of The Great Wall. Her travelling companions told her it was the best view.
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I hope there are no rumors of this Turkey being plastic.