Doug’s World

Mom in Turkey

I mentioned in my last post that Mom is in Turkey. It’s a 3-week trip, and she’ll be sending emails back for me to forward to a bunch of people, as she’s done before. I’ll also post them here. Here’s the first one …

Hope all is well with all of you. It has been a good trip so far.

The first night in Istanbul, our guide walked us from our hotel to the Galata area, where the fish market is. The restaurant we ate in had us choose fish from a nearby market and then they cooked it for us. The food has really been
great, and our guide (who likes to cook) is very willing to help us make food choices and explain what we are eating.

If anyone watched the Today show on Thursday May 1st, Matt Lauer was in Istanbul. According to him the first inter-continental flight was made here –long before the airplane was invented. Some man strapped devices to his arms and jumped off the Galata Tower (which is in Europe) and soared across the Bosphorus River into Asia.

We have visited the Blue Mosque, the Hagia Sophia (which has been a church and a mosque and I think a synagogue over the centuries — but is now a museum. We have been to the Grand Bazaar, the Spice market, and yesterday were at Ephesus and the last home of the Virgin Mary.

I brought my cane and am very glad that I did. It helps a lot on these rough terrains — also people tend to help you just because you carry a cane.

We are in Kusadasi now and in a very nice hotel. It is right on the water, and only a year old — so very clean and spacious.

Love,
Mom/LaVonne

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