No much happening here today. For the ANZAC commemoration (the ABC keeps saying celebration, to which I object) there was a fly-over by an E-7A Wedgetail (Boeing 737 with a radar of top) and three F-18E/F. First time I'd seen the E-7A.
Lots of lightening and thunder today, but not much rainfall.
TA must have got a surprise as the people rushed past him!
I hope you're feeling better and can participate in the other parts of the tour.
My main problem is that the diarrhea is still very often. At first I had problems making it to the toilet and it was so often that I couldn't leave my room. Last night I managed to go to the dining room for a while. Tomorrow we go back to Istanbul. I have a stopper,but they say not to use it unless you need to because it lengthens the recovery time. If I am still having so much, I will have to.
ReplyDeleteI went down to breakfast and asked for bread and water. I got these, but soon got other dishes as well. A plate of olives, one of three different cheeses, pasturma, sliced orange, cucumber and tomato, dried fruit and nuts, various condiments, a bread like a bagel with sesame seeds, and lastly a fried egg. Each time I said no another plate appeared.
ReplyDeleteThe bread here is not Turkish bread - not flat, but more like continental bread.
There are lots of fly over happening here right now and the battleships have gone.
ReplyDeleteI went out the front and although I only saw the end, the airshow was magnificent. Evidently they were practicing for the show at 12.30 - I think that is when the Turkish memorial is. The battleships are back.
ReplyDeleteAt 12.15 I was woken by the fly by - but I didn't go outside although it was very noisey. I have been reading the notes for eastern turkey while I have been in bed, and am really looking forward to it. He is a typical academic and never uses a plain word were a more obscure will do. He also writes all dates with ad BC ce or bce suffix. This can be quite funny when he is talking about archeologists excavating. I hope he is not as stuffy as his writing!
ReplyDeleteDid you know that western traders wanted so much rhubarb that the chinese thought they relied upon it for survival?
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