BrOOklyn-JOrusalOm

From Boğazkent to Side https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side,_Turkey

Bye-Bye Antalya

Just ride along

The wall of my room

One learns something new all the time. E.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_syndrome from Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center, published this April 2022, by https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidra_DeKoven_Ezrahi,

p.5 “restoring the lost comic muscle can, then, provide the antidote to tragic-sacrificial impulses in contemporary Israel.”

On the other side:

I did not know such beautiful dreamlike places really existed in the world

Antalya by the sea

To have an idea of my journey so far:

Yesterday in the church of Sinterklaas, Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myra, who was born in nearby Patara (see last week)

Either you slide into the water or you walk in from the beach

Another interesting detail is that the coffee machine here has chocolate espresso. I never saw that before and it tastes quite good!

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In https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriake

In other news: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/world/asia/japan-covid-relief-funds-gambler.html

The advice from car drivers to cyclists is not to be taken at face value. When they say the road is flat, they mean they only remember one mountain. They have no idea about false flats and the many tough imperceptible climbs that one meets on two wheels.

The Greek island Kastellorizo in the morning light as seen from my tent