19.2.06

Surfing...

The channels were just a blur as I was changing them too quickly. There was nothing to watch. The cooking was done. I didn't want to read. Sigh! Nothing to do. And then suddenly I heard a voice... "this is the place to be at night..." the shots were of a narrow street which I completely fell in love with the first instant I saw it. Where we had our first taste of raki. Where we tried one of the tastiest meze' ever!

The show was "globe-traveller" on Discovery - Travel & Living.

Misty eyed, I jumped up to call A and tell him to hurry home and watch the second half of the episode on Istanbul with me.

I was smiling too much as I watched - The Blue Mosque, Galata Tower, streets of SultanAhmet whiz by on the TV screen... I was there. We were there together. It felt so... exhiliratingly cool! And it felt sad. That it is over. All we are left with are the photographs. The blog. And the memories.

Sigh.

9 Comments:

Blogger nina said...

awww. and sigh.

thinking of you guys a lot recently; i just read a novel called The New Life. its by Orhan Pamuk, about these college students in turkey, who travel all over the country by bus (for reasons that make up the whole novel!) but the descriptions of the small towns, the hostels, street eateries...

awwww. and sigh.

February 21, 2006 9:05 AM  
Blogger D said...

hello nina! where have you been???? sorry about missing your birthday! what with all the reading about turkey - maybe you guys should go there :)

February 21, 2006 10:21 AM  
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