Happy to wear my new opera dress

Performances attended 2022

As I wrote when I started this blog, after my years in…

Vignettes of my time in Türkiye, 2022
Enjoying friendly exchanges with strangers

In my post "Sign Language," I wrote of a very friendly hotel…

Seriously. I did wonder ... after so many years living in the…

I'll keep adding to these tidbits of travel info gleaned from experience.…

Fatih is the district of Istanbul with the famous historic sites most…

I had skipped the public baths in Budapest because the weather was…

I mentioned in an earlier post that this trip is a new…

street scene in Fatih's shoe district

After checking into my Istanbul hotel, I was ready to post that…