Walking to the border

Foreground, left to right: Yonca, Donna, Tolga, Alper, Hasan, Gerdi. Background: Diego, Vahap, and Ulrike. Hidden or barely visible: Salih, Joy. Working the camera: me

Writing a name on a bottle

I was going to break three champagne bottles on the road at the end of the walk, but there was no champagne available, at least not conveniently. So I broke three bottles of apple-flavored sparkling soda water instead. Sometimes the bottles would not break, no matter...

Saturday’s early birds have a group breakfast

"Van kahvaltısı" (Van breakfast) is famous around Turkey. So when in Van, have breakfast. And have breakfast we did. Oh, what an orgy of food it was! We ordered enough for "two people," and six of us barely ate half of it. Fortunately, Yonca...

Article in Saturday’s Posta newspaper

Posta is one of Turkey’s national newspapers. Some people look down their noses at it, since it is chock full of photos of half-naked women. In Turkey, though, a newspaper chock full of photos of half-naked women doesn’t mean it’s a Posta, it just...