Monday, July 03, 2006

İzmir

Mussels with pilav and lemon juice from a street vendor.

Hakan, Nur, and Ferhan showed us around their home city for a day. We went to the local bazaar where we bought lots of beautiful silver jewelry and Turkish pistachios (the best in the world, purportedly). We took a quick ferry across the bay and shopped in an upscale section of town while Scott, Hakan and Nur fetched our rental car - an 11 passenger white Hyundai StarEx a.k.a. the Mothership.

The first mosque built by the Byzantines upon their occupation of İzmir, with a Turkish flag in the background.

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