Antalya

Last month, I had a free weekend in Turkey so I hopped a plane to Antalya and spent the weekend on the beach of the Mediterranean. I'd like to say it was sunny and warm, but it was breezy and cool so I spent more time layered up than I did tanning.

Cool weather or not, it was a perfectly relaxing weekend, plenty of quiet time spent walking along the beach, picking up shells and pebbles.

I even got brave and had my first Turkish Bath experience, an experience I'm sure to be repeating!

Kat introduced me to Ed Sheeran, and I'm so glad she did, here's his A Team.

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Around the 'hood

This post is probably more for my mom than anyone else. She always likes to be able to see where her chicks live, so one Sunday I took a walk in my neighborhood in Istanbul and took a few photos to give her a tour. The neighborhood I live in roughly translates to: houses with gardens.

That may have been true back when the area was created, but now it is more 4-5 story buildings full of apartments/flats with fenced in courtyards and maybe a little piece of grass.  The photo above is part of the bricked sidewalk and the shadow from the fence surrounding one of the courtyards on my block.

We do most of our grocery shopping at a Carrefour a couple of blocks from home (which conveniently sets next to a crazy-busy Starbucks), on weekends these guys set up tables a sale on a busy intersection just a block from the market.

This fruit vendor is just around the corner from us and he's always there. 7 days a week at all hours, there has never been a time I've walked by and he hasn't be sitting there. The fruits in his truck change with the season, but the truck and the man are always there.

Kat turned me on to Ed Sheeran this week and I've been listening to him a LOT - here's his Wayfaring Stranger.


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