More Kayseri hospital interiors

This was the operating theatre, if I remember correctly (these were taken over a year ago, you know). And a large tub with a pouring spout, to mix medications in. But the central heating was more recently installed! ;-)

Medical facilities

I promised some time ago to dig out pictures of the Selcuk university hospital in Kayseri. It's a museum these days, of course, but it used to be a teaching hospital.

Fjodor

He is a close friend. I don't think I've introduced him before. He is very protective of his tiny white rabbit.

Ankara covered in snow

Oh, yes - this is the view from my living-room this week. Approx 70 cm of snow have fallen, but none is cleared off the streets... Temperatures are falling, too.

Ankara moonlight

This week we have loooots of snow in Ankara - I'll show you that soon to. This is summer moonlight, from the archives.

Deir el-Zafaran

The Syriani monastery outside Mardin is a truly magical (and historical!) place. I went there in October. I've been hoping to go back and believe I may be able to during the coming months.

My husband...

... also has a weblog. I promised a long time ago to give the link to you... Do check it out - it's interesting! But he writes about much more serious things than I do! ;-)

Lipstick!

We've also been very busy recently dealing with all the pictures from our wedding and wedding trip. Maybe I should show you some more from our trip through Egypt also. But this is one of the funniest from our wedding day. It's me and my sister, who had done my make-up, busy wiping lipstick (but not my own!) off my face.

More Istanbul

And this is a view over the Bosphorus from the Topkapi Sarayi - also taken last year.
But don't worry, there are more trips to come during the spring here and lots of older pictures to see too! So do keep checking back here once in a while!

Back in Turkey

I haven't taken any pictures at all since coming back from Aleppo, actually, which is more than 2 weeks ago! So, I'll start digging in the backlog again - not least to keep you coming back for more! ;-) This is the Ortaköy mosque in Istanbul, seen from the Bosphorus. Remember I had another picture of it, taken from the land-side, a few weeks ago? This is summertime though and LOVELY June weather. Now there is snow on the ground and the temperature is around zero Celsius...

Aleppo international bus station

Oh yes, this parking lot was the international bus station in Aleppo! The bus ticket office next to "ours" also had buses to Mosul and Baghdad (it wasn't difficult to refrain from that destination!). And almost all the ticket offices offered tickets to everywhere between Sofia in Bulgaria to Amman in Jordan and numerous destinations (Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam) in Saudi-Arabia. Our ticket, from TransAsia Travel, you could find below!

Historic psychiatric ward

Well, this was Aleppos mental hospital, where sunlight, the sound of running water and soft music playing were important ingredients in the treatment of patients. It was active into the 20th century, but no longer.

If I start digging deep into my photo backlog one day, I could show you pictures of an early university hospital in Anatolian Kayseri (Seldjuk-era). Save it for a rainy day!

Aleppo Citadel

In the dusk, this time.

French era-style building

Stone-vaulted alleys

Ottoman balconies

From El-Jdeida - the Ottoman-style and more Christian quarter of Aleppo.

Even more citadel

Citadel again

Some more views of the Aleppo citadel.

Inside the Aleppo souq

These tiny doors (set low down in the BIG ones that were only opened for the camel caravans) were intended for the traders entering and exiting from the khans. More like a cat-flap, huh? ;-)

You can also see the bricked inside ceiling of the souq.

Typical? Old and new, and all squished together!

A stretch of old Aleppo city wall with a Arabic inscription on - complete with housing leaning on it and satellite dishes!

And one of Aleppos oldest mosques, built inside a Roman triumphal arch (can you see the arch?) - situated just inside the Bab Antakya (Antioch Gate) where the Arab conquerors first entered the city walls.