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Seasons Greetings: or,| Bookstagram | Vinyl | Coffee | Arabic, Bedouin Coffee | Alt J | Star Wars
These are a few of my favorite things. Wishing everyone wellness and peace through the holidays! What are you up to this week? New Years? My material obsessions right now? •Alt J • Poetry by @r.h.sin • Antique Bedouin Coffee Pots • Coffee via Portland • @originalfunko Luke Skywalker.
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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…