Good morning!

Yesterday went to Mersin. Arrived late and after searching along the long boulevard for hotel, finally opted for the $uite with seaview











Muz = banana



Patterns

A loong cycling journey from Brooklyn to Jorusalom, where the O’s are bicycle wheels, continued into Egypt, 1st to the climate conference COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, on to the pyramids in Giza, Abusir and Saqqara and then up the Nile soourcewards.
Good morning!

Yesterday went to Mersin. Arrived late and after searching along the long boulevard for hotel, finally opted for the $uite with seaview














Patterns

A first! My bicycle in my room!

More on this tomorrow

Preparing for Jerusalem day which starts this evening at sundown and will be celebrated tomorrow https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/yom-yerushalayim-2022
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Day
If you like big flags https://thekotel.org/en/126986/ (https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2022-05-27/ty-article-opinion/israels-flag-madness-heralds-a-war-around-the-corner/00000181-06e6-d090-abe1-e7ff8eb70000)
Here in Side mosaics and foundations continue to be uncovered in a sprawling antique city

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:



A loong cycling journey, from the original BrOOklyn to far away JOrusalOm. Where capital O’s are wheels. Started 26 July 2021; numbers are number of days en rOute; now onward to COP27, and further in Egypt