Alternate Vision

After an unusualy cool and windy Sunday spent blissfully frolicking around in Adana's aqualand, we gradually made our way back home by foot. One shade darker now. The road home was a fifteen minute walk that took us past the elegant Sanbanci Merkez Mosque, over the Ceyhan river, past the hawkers selling shaved ice, turkish ice cream, fresh roasted nuts and tea and straight into the lush green Camii park. Ofcourse, being a Sunday, the park was teeming with people of all ages sprawled on the lawns soaking up the great weather. I've often told myself that if the summer weather here were a tad bit more cooperative am sure the city would become infinitely more habitable, and then maybe half the city wouldn't need to escape to the coast every weekend. Yesterday's weather proved my point. Spirits were higher, people actually left the confines of their homes to come outside and the city had come alive it seemed. As we made our way out of the park, we walked past an open air amphitheatre that none of us had noticed before. We returned later that night, after sunset, to watch a free movie along with some two hundred people. Prior to the movie, about 50% of the people present to watch the movie converted the center stage to a dance floor and were "movin to the groove". I found it quite funny to see a 7o year old grandfather dancing with his baby grandaughter to some pretty darn good trance. People took their seats and the movie started. A turkish movie with German subtitles wasn't what I was hoping for, but oh well liviu's mininal German helped us stay focused and enjoy atleast the first half. Definitely one of the better days I have had here in my short month and a half,credit goes to the weather. And with that, yet another chapter in my life is closed. Heading to Istanbul this wednesday and from there to discover the mysteries of the Blue Aegean. Cellphoneless.

Istanbul awaits