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Rugs and More Rugs
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Rugs and More Rugs

We have been in ten rug shops. We have bought rugs once already today
What are we doing now, after dinner, on the second floor of the Rumj Restaurant? Shopping for rugs, of course.

January 1, 2011
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The Tune is Familiar…
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The Tune is Familiar…

We didn’t understand a word of the Turkish songs our new friends sang, and they didn’t understand English — but you know, that didn’t pose any problems at all.You can’t see me here — I’m surrounded by...

December 31, 2010
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Happy New Year from Istanbul!
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Happy New Year from Istanbul!

My name is Mark McElroy. The year is 2011, I am 47 years old, and I can now say that I have rung in the New Year dressed as Santa Claus, singing “I’ll Fly Away” to an audience of clapping Muslims in the middle of a Turkish...

December 31, 2010
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Dinner and a Story
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Dinner and a Story

“Franco,” the extremely flirtatious waiter at the Turquoise Restaurant, sold us on the house specialty: the Sultan’s Lamb. The meat and sauce are added to the clay pot, then cooked in an oven. At table side, the pots are set afire...

December 31, 2010
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Made in China
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Made in China

The Grand Bazaar is stuffed with merchandise, almost all of it inexpensive machine-made replicas from China. The bowls above are knock-offs of hand-painted, one-of-a-kind works of art, cranked out by the thousands … but every vendor, of...

December 31, 2010
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