Yesterday in the church of Sinterklaas, Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myra, who was born in nearby Patara (see last week)
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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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A rose is a rose even if it is plastic In https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriake
New wristfish from Kekova In other news: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/world/asia/japan-covid-relief-funds-gambler.html
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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.
Special ferry The Greek island Kastellorizo in the morning light as seen from my tent
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In the theater of Kaş (Garrulus glandarius or Eurasian Jay ex machina)
Portraits in the sky New companion made by the wonderful artiste Arzu Kaytan (if you are on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arzu_kaytan/)
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Today studies in Turquoise https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Riviera
The Pırats have landed
From room Aşk the Moon
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It is not Egypt yet. The left island is called The Mouse. The right island The Snake. 
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The mosque in Kalkan:
Straight ahead:
Reading Acts of the Apostles https://www.biblehub.com/niv/acts/2.htm (apparently written by Luke)
Here the spirit goes up on a string:
To get to Kalkan i had to climbclimbclimb yesterday
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Holiday home
Last evening
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Where i read
(the book on the table is Karen Armstrong’s History of Jerusalem, One City, Three Faiths that set me on my journey and that i read along the road)And a lot of world news covered by journalists risking their lives….https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-when-foreign-media-outlets-become-israel-s-enemy-1.10794397?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=author-alert&utm_campaign=Zvi%20Bar%27el&utm_term=20220512-06:05
Friend turtle passing by
There is a very good book on all the antique marbles and treasures, statues and friezes that have been taken out of Turkey (Anatolia) by Europeans (English, Austrian, French, German, Dutch) and Americans by Yaşar Yilmaz. How rich and wonderful would it be if these hoarded treasures were still in their original place? One could then experience much more of the high quality of ancient civilizations, Lycian, Lydian, Aechemenid, Hellene, Luwian, Hittite, Roman. It would be a more historical world one could perceive, instead of a stolen past.
