In other news, I’m pleased to annouce my camera and I have resolved our differences, and are spending a lot of quality time together on bridges, boats, and quays (these are a few of my favorite things). Here’s a recent journey: a walk around the little quayside park in Perşembe Pazarı on the northern side of the Golden Horn, then onto a Karaköy-Kadıköy ferry across the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara’s edge, to the Asian side; later, returning from Kadıköy to Eminönü, followed by a walk across the Galata bridge back to Karaköy, and then up the hill to home. The smells of salt and fish, and the conversations of seagulls, are constant fellow travelers.
1. Lonely dock in Perşembe Pazarı; 2. Three men in a boat (the Karaköy-Kadıköy ferry); 3. Passengers waiting at the Kadıköy iskelesi (ferry pier) at sunset; 4. Sarayburnu reflected in the windows of a Kadıköy-Eminönü ferry; 5. Balık ekmek (fresh fish sandwich) boats at Eminönü.
4 Comments
July 4, 2009 at 10:10 am
I miss the waters, boats, fish, sandwiches, the breeze, the hot people of the city – and I realize I sound like a broken record, I miss, I miss, I miss, but what to do, I really do.
These are lovely all. Btw, I find those balık ekmek boats totally amusing – they weren’t there the first time I went and I haven’t really bothered sitting and eating in one. Perhaps something to try out.
July 4, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Szerelem, by “the hot people of the city,” do you mean “hot,” or do you mean “hot”?
Great pix E. There’s more treasure in the visible world than can be captured with depth of field.
July 4, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Wonderful photos, and the whole idea of a fish sandwich boat has my mind reeling (so to speak), and mouth watering.
July 5, 2009 at 1:04 am
I mean “hot”, of course.