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Leaving the women's section after prayer, Sultanahmet Camii
Istanbul, Turkey
05/19/07
The Blue Mosque still calls the faithful to prayer. Visitors are expected to dress appropriately, take off their shoes, and behave in a respectful manner. Women have a separate area in the back for prayer. On the way out you can make a donation if you care to.
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Spice Bazaar spices
Istanbul, Turkey
05/19/07
Mısır Çarşısı (Spice Bazaar) was built in the early 17th century. The Turks refer to it as the Egyptian Bazaar because it was built with money collected as duty on Egyptian goods. Today you can find quite a range of items: spices, foods, household goods, toys, clothes, and even exotic aphrodisiacs.
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Feeding the pigeons outside Yeni Cami
Istanbul, Turkey
05/19/07
The Yeni Cami (New Mosque) was completed in 1663 and is located next to the Mısır Çarşısı (Spice Bazaar). In the plaza outside the mosque women in traditional dress sell seed to feed the pigeons.
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Cape Cod Road Trip
Photo Essay written 3 May 2008
We wanted to get away for a week and decided on revisiting The Cape. We hadn't been there in years, even though it is only a two hour drive down the road.
Brax Landing
Harwich Port, MA
05/01/08
The Brax Landing Restaurant is one of the few places we found that offered a water view complete with two Canadian Geese and their four goslings.
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The Old Grist Mill
Chatham, MA
05/01/08
It seems that every town has at least one windmill. The Old Grist Mill was built in 1797 by Colonel Benjamin Godfrey to grind corn. It is nestled in a small park surrounded by Scrub Pines. The mill was only able to operate in winds blowing 20-25 mph.
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Cape Cod Amber (Red) Ale
Impudent Oyster, Chatham, MA
05/01/08
The flagship of Cape Cod Beer. You can find it in most of the Cape's establishments.
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Scrub Pine
Chatham, MA
05/01/08
Scub Pine is to be found everywhere you travel on The Cape.
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Mayo House
Chatham, MA
05/01/08
This 3/4 Cape built in 1818 is just one of many that you will see as you drive from town to town.
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Highland Light (Cape Cod Light)
Truro, MA
04/27/08
The rock in the foreground marks the spot where Highland Light originally stood from 1857 to 1996. A golf course, Highland Links, lies on either side of the lighthouse with a cart path that runs right in front of it.
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John Linton has been a member since 17 April 2008 and goes by ride0583.
Currently in sufferable.
I am a retired secondary teacher (32 years) who spent his childhood developing his skills as a military brat while the family moved from one location to another. I attended Gorham State College to avoid the draft, somehow graduated with a teaching degree in the Social Studies, was hired by the Westerly School Department in 1970, and have lived in Westerly, RI ever since. When people ask me what I do now I tell them "Nothing," but I do dabble in photography and travel whenever I can.
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