The Lazy Way of Blogging by Using Facebook Status Updates Sarah Reinertsen... is in Istanbul (not Constantinople) and is searching for a carpet shop, does anyone know where I can find one??? (19/5/09) has been scrubbed within an inch of her life by a large turkish woman named fatimah, learned about carpet quality, spent too much on a backgammon board that she doesn't know how to play, and later learned how to play backgammon from a turkish carpet sale...

Executive Summary - Cappadocia Saw: Fairy chimneys (LOTS of fairy chimneys), a 6 level 20,000 people capacity underground city, ancient churches in caves, Goreme Open Air Museum, rose valley, love valley (refer Turkish Boyfriend story), a really bad presentation on onyx, a really good presentation on ceramics, silk production lesson #2, a really good presentation on carpets followed by a sales pitch to buy them Did: rode a horse, sold juice and post...

The Turkish Boyfriend Story (aka Turkish Men LOVE Me) So I arrive in Cappadocia which is this weird lunar landscape type place where people have built their houses into these basalt/volcanic rock caves and you kinda expect ewoks or smurfs to come out of them at any moment. (Seriously. One of the more recent star wars movies was filmed near here) It was 8 am after an overnight bus and I mercifully had a free day in which to amuse myself and rest up before I jump...