Jeremiah's Strange Times

Heres my account of the rest of our time in Turkey.. as usual I seem to working backwards in this email.  After spending a few days in Ankara working out our Syrian Visas as related in Part 1, we returned to Istanbul for a proper look around, went out on the ferries, popped back and forth across the Bosporus a few times, generally chilled.  We also met an Australian pair we would race to Cairo, albeit they were travelling as part of tour. Istanbul by sea We also decided, in a misunderstanding of just how much time we had left, to forgo our trip down the Dardanelles to Troy and Gallipoli.  Instead it was straight down the coast to Ephesus.  Sat, 7 Aug 2004 15:03:35 +0000 Well here I am again, not gonna write much this time as not alot has happened in the past few days, well not a lot in comparison with the bureaucracy of doom of the past week.  Eoin's writing his email, so here I am writing mine. We're in Selçuk on t...

The year after Thailand, myself and my friend Eoin Ryan decided to head to the Middle East.  It had been something I'd wanted to do for years.  As a kid I used to annoy baby sitters by appearing in the living room after being put to bed, kept awake by nagging questions concerning Tutankhamen's genealogy.  Apparently.   Later in life, I'd become obsessed with T.E. Lawrence, somehow making it through 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' twice, not to mention a book of his letters and several biographies.  I'd familiarised myself with a fairly large number of ancient alphabets, and had recently taught myself to read Arabic. Jerry And Eoin 2004 Yet I kept putting it off.  I think it was only Eoin's madness in saying he'd like to come along that made me take the plunge.  It was quite a risk at the time.  Iraq had only recently been declared 'At Peace' Bush had landed on his aircraft carrier and declared 'Mission Accomplished', and so, war st...