My friend Denise has a son who is a pilot out of Istanbul, and soon also in Cesme, Turkey. We just spoke to him using Skype---a fabulous long distance online program to talk to loved ones who live on the other side of the world. Go to Skype.com for the free download.
Cesme where my friend's pilot son will be stationed is a grand resort town close to Izmir---a tourist hub. These port cities are all vibrant, tourist cities with lively markets, lots of great shopping, and archeological sites galore. For us OWLs it's best to travel in pairs, although I did travel alone in Turkey and found it quite safe. Hmmm, that reminds me of the time I was offered the services of a young boy about age 14. I was staying in a hotel room in Selcuk which is close to Ephesus. One evening there was a knock at my hotel room door. Standing there was a young boy and the hotel owner who offered me the young man for an evenings entertainment. Apparently a North American woman traveling alone in Turkey without a husband is after one thing---young boys.
I didn't know what to say. Not wanting to be impolite, I thanked him and made sure he knew I had come to see the archeological ruins and was not interested in his offer. I wanted him to know that not every older North American woman leaves her husband in Istanbul to do business and comes to Selcuk for certain pleasures, as he thought.
Anyway, that said, the western coast towns of Turkey are marvelous places to visit and a short hydrofoil ride from Greece.
Hi to George in Istanbul!!!
Do not eat the dried apricots or hazelnuts in Turkey because they are contaminated with radiation. The Japanese nuclear fallout from six nuclear reactors has indeed reached Europe.
ReplyDelete'"Nuclear power is a hell of a way to boil water," said Albert Einstein. Because that's all nuclear power is used for. To boil water through the massive heat, turn it into steam, turn a turbine which generates electricity. . . . Einstien said, "The splitting of the atom changed everything save man's mode of thinking." Very profound. Thus we drift towards unparalleled catastrophy. We are arrogant, we have a lot of huberous, and I think the reptilian midbrain of some men's brains is pathological. We are now in a situation where we have harnessed the energy of the Sun, it is totally out of control, and there is simply nothing we can do about it.' —Dr. Helen Caldicott
From a talk by Dr Helen Caldicott - Fukushima Nuclear Disaster- You won't hear this on the Main Stream News; www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ITrXVJMKeQ