On our walk from the hotel to the 'sights' we passed this one day fresh outdoor market. The set-up was so artistic and colorful - it was amazing!!
There Paul is (center, back) buying some mandarins for us.
Look how creatively he displayed his pumpkins!!! And when we asked for his picture, he wanted Clarissa to join him.
Also, it is kind of hard to tell, but the background on this picture is the wall of the hippodrome - we are talking almost Roman ages here and on top of the wall is a modern government building... it was just amazing to walk past all these ancient landmarks that just become commonplace.
This marker is called 'million'. It marks the center of the world. And there we stood!!!
It was fun to hear our guides talk about all the things that originated in Turkey - turquoise, words, religions, tulips - of course, they were proud of all they developed and probably exxaggerrattedd (I have no idea how to spell it - on one of those consonants there is double) a little bit - but when we read about things - they were right. Turkey was in the center of a lot of things for a long time.
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