Green, Green Gray England

Hello from green green but gray England. We are currently in Market Drayton in the Shropshire region where hubby's twin brother and his family lives. Its such a quiet and peaceful place. Taking lots of walks in the city admiring the old houses and out to the country side admiring the nature..
Its the season of the Daffodils...

The beautiful house in the photos is the Huntingsdale Hall in Market Drayton..

Tomorrow we are taking the train to Edinbourgh and will spent 2 days there...

 More photos are coming soon...

Hello and Good bye...

Hello again,
Blogger ban is still continuing in Turkey. About a week ago, I was able to post but couldnt see my blog as well as yours. Then it went all black..It was not even possible to enter the blogger.com.
And there are these rumours that the ban will be lifted soon so about 4.000.000 bloggers are waiting...

and today I could have the access to blogger but not to blogs. So I wanted to say a quick HELLO..

and then GOOD BYE. We are leaving for England tomorrow, I hope it will be a nice journey in rural England. I am taking my PC with me and try to post as often as possible..

It is sooo great to be able to post again and hope to SEE you soon..

Cold Days..

Finally the much expected snow came to İstanbul, but unfortunately its not a totally white one. It is melting immediately and leaving us with muddy streets..Even Hera is not very happy with these weathers. She prefers her blankets to everything else..

 However it looks like the spring is in the horizon..All the beautiful spring flowers started to appear at flower stalls..

PS: Blogger ban here continues so I still cant see you as well as me!!

Blogger ban in Turkey

When you live in this part of the world,your so called very democratic politicians talk a lot about freedom of speech and independent media, but when it comes to reality they are all shallow words..

Yes, as of yesterday blogger/blogspot banned in Turkey for the second time in 2 years. So far I can post but cant see what I and others are posted from blogger.

It looks like some hackers transmitted the live football games of a pay TV station from blogger and our judges chosed the easy way to shut down all the blogs instead of catching the real culprits..

But I know that the best way is to keep doing what I love ,so starting from today and I dont know how long I will keep posting but cant have the access to my and all your blogs posting thru blogger..

Hope to SEE you soon friend...

Missing Colors..

Hello from rainy, gray and cold İstanbul.. Not much is going on here.. We are mostly staying at home and writing... Hubby is busy with his novel and I have been commissioned to write some travel stories to a magazine and a new internet site...I am writing about my travels in Central Asia and Tibet...

We are also planning our up coming travels. At the end of March we are flying to England to spent some time with hubby's twin and his family and then later in June we are going to Crimea..So much to plan and anticipate..

As the title of my post says, I miss warm colors and sun shine in these dark winter days.
Hubby bought the antique mirror and the bowl for our last anniversary... A photo from the last summer..

Two lovers..

We have saved this special exhibition for Valentines Day, and yesterday we, two lovers went to visit another two lovers visiting İstanbul. Frida and Diego are in İstanbul with their amazing paintings..

Although theirs was a shaky relationship, I always admire the intense affaction and the artistic creativity of both. I think that I have never seen another female painter than Frida who described her love  to a man so strongly, so emotionally and so painfully..

I admired the great murals of Diego Rivera during my visit to Mexico, but I do not remember seeing paintings from him. So couple Diego paintings from the exhibition were such a different treat.

Wishing you a year filled with love....

Soutwest Wind

 Southwest wind which is called lodos in Turkish is always a big deal in the life of İstanbul. Well, first of all it delays  all the sea traffic, brings warm weathers but most importantly it has been blamed for insomnia and headache..So whenever you complain about a sleepless night or a slight headache during the windy days, everybody immediadely becomes a doctor and tell you that its because of the wind...

These amazing photograps are taken by a chilhood friend of mine, Şebnem Pilgir Aykol. She is a very talented architect and a photographer. She photographed the southwest wind in one of our favorite walking places near the Marmara Sea.
Şebnem dear, thank you very much for allowing me to post these photos on Turquoise Diaries and please visit the much neglected photo blog of Şebnem here..