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Great shots of Istanbul!

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6YYpeo_M1Y&feature...

On Rumi by Shamloo

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2TZtQ51AqU&feature...!

(Not sure if this belongs here, but didn't know where else it could go) 

راستی‌ ردّ واین جان، در مورد استانبول

با وجودی که آنکارا به نظر من از ایران خیلی‌ بیشتر از استانبول داره، من هم به زودی هوای استانبول را خواهم کرد.

دوستان مشترکمان هم در استانبول اقامت داشتند، نه آنکارا.

سر شما رو می‌بوسم، مرسی‌ از کامنتت.

Thanks Shazdeh!

: )

Monda dear: all your photos are very nice, but ...

My favorite is #29 ... most good looking!

شراب جان...

منهم دیگر در پخش خبر بد عجله ندارم! اصلا دیگر گفتن ندارد.

به امید دیدار همگی.

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سیما جان ، آنها که رفتند، آدمهای خوبی‌ بودند و خدا را شاهد میگیریم که ذکر و خیر این افراد خوب همیشه حاضر و در قلبمان محفوظ است.

بنده از سنّ پایین موسیقیی اصیل ایرانی را شروع کردم اما کلاس ۴ که بودم بنا بر سفارش یکی‌ از دوستانم بعد از ظهر‌ها در کلاس پیانو هم شرکت می‌کردم،از ایشان چند کلاس دیدم که راه گشایی بودند برای سالهای بعدی من.

صدای شیرین ایشان را به خوبی‌ یاد دارم،برخلاف دیگر معلمین..ایشان بد اخلاق نبودند و از بازیگوشی ما بی‌ حوصله گی نمی‌کردند و یادشان به خیر که دیگر عالم ما این چنین افرادی را به خود نخواهد دید.

هنوز به دیگر افرادی که ایشان را میشناختند، من جمله مادر جانم،خبر فوت ایشان را نگفته‌ام که اینان دیگر طاقت غم عزیز دیگری را ندارند و سخت دلگیر هستند و ما معذور از دادن خبر بد !

خدا ایشان را رحمت کند و صبر به عزیزانشان دهد.

Bah bah, haz kardam

Turkey is fabulous. And I always get a kick out of the fact that so much of ancient Greece is actually in Turkey. Another tit for tat!

Red Wine jan I can't help commenting on your comment. Samin and Evlin Baghcheban were my uncle and aunt, and my first music teachers. I'm crying already. It's not going to be easy going there for me either. I know what you mean.

Proud of you Monda!

ماندا جان

ماندا جان واقعا لذت بردم چرا که با اینجاها احساس نزدیکی‌ می‌کنم و انگاری که خودم آنجا بوده ام.سپاسگزارم.

دیگر بعد از مرگ اولین خانم شهر آنکارا آنچنان برایم دیدنی‌ نیست و بغضی عجیب مرا در بر می‌گیرد و احساسی‌ شکننده که حتی قادر به جایگیری در یک آهنگی غم انگیز پیانو نیست و اصلا قابل توصیف نیست.

اما دلم برای استانبول تنگ شده است و در اولین فرصت دوباره به آنجا خواهم رفت و که آنجا بوی روزهایی را میدهد که هنوز در ایران بودم و عجب دلخوش و صد عجب که هنوز دلتنگ آنجا و دیگر بی‌ طاقت.

دست بوس شما . . .

شراب قرمز.

بارسلونا.

Ari, there's some justice after all!

Just saw a credit on the Konya tour! :o)

I had reported to the tour company that from that moment on, I could not Trust Anything out of that tour guide's mouth! Therefore, demanded a refund on that whole day trip! Now, I do recommend 7worldtravel. Because They do take their job seriously.

Your joke my dear was so good! 

Beautiful pictures, with comments too!

Thanks for sharing Monda jan.

Tit for tat

Dang it Ari! that was a good one!

Revenge for all the Tork jokes

Lovely clip,

No matter how many times I watch it. Thank you Hoshang jan.

The misspelling of Khanom by the way had skipped me!

Wonderful Evlin Kahnom.

got this yesterday, hope you like it. Very nice pictures, looks so relaxed and laid back. I always get a chukle about fighting over Mulavi's 'nationality', cheers

www.jadidonline.com/images/stories/flash_multimedi...

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Wow! They call Rumi "Turkish"........not long ago, a guy on IC called him "Afghan" poet 'cause he was born in Afghanistan......there was a long debate......everyone wanted to take his glory! Wikipedia calls him Persian poet!

Thank you for sharing!

Yolanda, about Konya

Molana's mausoleum, sorry to share, was rather anticlimactic to me. There were hardly any artifacts directly from him, except for a few pens and handwritten (?) pieces. It was a mere tourist attraction.

And on top of it, I heard several tour guides referring to the poet philosopher as, the Turkish leader of the Whirling Darvishes! That piece got me so disappointed that I sent a complaint email to the day tour company, to hire more educated tour guides. Even though our tour guide, after my clarification, corrected his information.

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Hi! Monda,

    Thank you for sharing your beautiful photo collection....some of them look like postcard, like #1......your title photo, a hamvatan playing tar, was taken in Konya.........Did you visit Rumi's tomb in Konya?......I am very envious...I wish I could visit Konya one day........#41, the hammock, is great....looks very sturdy! I like all the food photos.....very tantalizing and colorful!

Thank you for your post in my blog.....I decided to thank you here 'cause the other blog is winding down!

Please take care!

Oh Faramarz don't go for Turkish pedicure!

They have totally different setup than we do here! One girl had my leg hanging in the air for like 40 minutes, just to massage it! I had to take 2 ibuprophins that night!

I enjoy semi-ran down places more than new ones... feel cozier to me that way. Glad you liked these shots. 

Nice Pictures Monda

It looks like a quiet and relaxing place to vacation. I also liked the peaceful cats and dogs with no worries in the world.

Maybe a fixer-upper kind of a town!

I liked the foot picture too! I should get a pedicure too one of these days!

Anonymouse and Anahid, Thank you!

@Anonymouse: I agree. However, I trust my intuitions once in awhile. I even do quite a bit of researching about some places... considering compatibility with the cultures, work opportuinities, living expenses, etc., before I leave.

@Anahid: Glad you like these photos. Thank you for your nice comment. 

Thanks Ari!

Complements from you tend to sneak in a special place inside of my brain : )

Azadeh jan, ghorbone mahabatet

Not much more (not counting my new interigue with zumba  : )

Wonderful pictures, Monda Jan

What other talents are you hiding from us? :-)). Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,

Azadeh

Very nice pictures, many good ones to mention a few but I will

Very nice pictures. I started taking notes of which ones are the good ones but there are many great ones. Some that I liked were: 11, 12, 50, 51, 40, but it is better to look at all since there are many good pictures here. Thanks.

Beautiful pics, Monda!

Agree with JJ, you have a great eye. #51 gets my top vote--a strong sense of inside and outside, both wonderfully inviting.

JJ Jan, lotf dari : )

I'm naturally lazeee when it comes to these things! Not that I'm proud of it, just how I am. So glad you liked these shots! Now that I know, I'll look for more on other locations (found one memory chip in the pocket of this skirt that I washed after the Bodrum trip... sad but at least it wasn't my passport :o)

Very nice photos!

These are indeed nice photos but going on vacation and falling in love with a place is not like living in it.  When you live in one place the place looks different.

Everytime I go on a vacation, even in Iran, I want to pack up and move to that place!  I too would like to move to another country to live, at least in my retirement. Retirement - there's another word for vacation! 

Everything is sacred

Koja boodi ta hala?

I was really surprised by these photos. Yes, they were very nice and I enjoyed them a lot. But as a publisher I wondered why this was the first photo essay you have ever sent this way? You have a very good eye and I hope you don't deny your fans this wonderful talent of yours.

The tar zan and his parrot is just out of this world:
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Look again at the luscious colors of this pomegranate:
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And with the skinny cat:
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Nice frame for a great piece of art:
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And bad nagzareh!
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Great car, great shot:
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