Posts Tagged ‘turkey’
eastern europe
i wafted over to istanbul from tel aviv for twoish days of frantic eating, gawking (the aya sophia was built by primordial space aliens to dispense grim, psychic advice) & being mistaken for a turk by the locals. istanbul is massive. it somehow manages to be both islamic & secular at the same time. the street meat is so tasty that i should really stop calling myself a vegetarian & accept the mantle of omnivorism. i promise to eat meat & fish responsibly but without pontification when i get back to the states.
now i am in plovdiv, bulgaria. my russian has not been as helpful as i had hoped – bulgarian is written in cyrillic, but very few words overlap, and not too many folks speak russian. haven’t been here long enough to make impressions, and not sure what i am doing here. i think at this point in the trip all goals have fallen away like late autumn leaves, and i am in the business of raw existence ($200/lb).
friends of friends have generously offered their couch & company elsewhere in the country (provadiya), and i am slowly making my way over there. i finish in home-sweet(?)-home lvov/lviv/lemburg, from which i fly to AMERICA on april 22nd.
o things are ending & and i em exhausted. my brain is simmering like an old coffee pot. the contents are rich, goopy, filled with potential. i miss everybody, but see you soon!
