Sketching Sites
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Sketching Sights: Galata Tower (Istanbul, Turkey)
Art, asia, Backpacking, City Guide, Culture, Europe, history, Istanbul, Middle East, Sketching Sites, Travel, travel writing, WatercolorAdventure, adventure travel, amwriting, Art, Asia, Backpacking, bosphorus, Byzantium, Constantinople, culture, Europe, galata tower, History, Istanbul, memoir, middle east, painting, Poetry, sketch, strait of bosphorus, travel, Travel Blog, travel blogger, travel writer, travel writing, travelblog, Traveling, Turkey, watercolorLike a great minaret, the Galata Tower represents so much more than meets the eye. Built in 1348 as the re-imagining of an earlier structure the tower has gone from hosting inmates, as a prison, to holding great secrets as an observatory for the astrologer Takıyeddin Efendi. What’s more, Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi the 17th century aviator… if you…
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Sketching Sights: Essaouira, Morocco
Africa, Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Backpacking, Blogging, City Guide, Culture, history, Morocco, Sketching Sites, Travel, travel writing, WatercolorAdventure, adventure travel, Africa, Arabic, Art, artist, atlantic, city, coastal, Drawing, essaouira, Gibraltar, globetrotting, History, Maghreb, maroc, Marrakech, Morocco, painting, sahara, sketch, sketching, sojourn, tbex, travel, Travel Blog, travel writer, Traveling, trek, trekking, wanderlust, watercolor, wayfaring, Yallah byeWhitewashed seaside facade under a beating Moroccan sun.
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I’m led through the imperial city of Fes by a pair of shrouded figures. We dance through the shadows of mud brick passageways and into the medina in time for the Asr call to prayer.
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Istanbul, Turkey Stay tuned for next weeks post on my visit to the Hagia Sophia. A little history, modern romanticism, photos… all that good stuff. Yallah, bye!
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Sketching Sights: The Acropolis (Athens, Greece)
Here’s a quick sketch of the Parthenon from the rooftop of my hostel. Though the site had been occupied for millenniums it wasn’t until 447 BC that the Acropolis really hit the map. At the height of Athens’ “Golden Age” Pericles began a project in the name of Athina. His building program went underway and 2,500 years later…
Nicholas Andriani Rankin, the Wandering Scholar 