OT: Visiting Turkey - Was: Saving My Money

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Hey Dede,

 

> Well, OK -- I'm saving my money for a trip to Turkey!! Perhaps a group

> thing??

 

I am sure you will love it. There is a group thing that comes here

each year but they are always booked solid long before the trip ..

check it out at http://www.aroma-tours.com/ .. Robbi and Jim are great

folks .. I meet them in the Rose Fields most years.

 

It is possible that I might start my own Rosy Trips to Turkey .. might

be next year but odds are it will be starting year after next. If I

dop this, mine would be different than Jim's .. not better and not

worse .. just different.

 

If and when it happens .. folks will know long in advance.

 

> Beautiful photos!

 

Thankee ma'am .. we have many more but they got zapped from the site

long ago by a nasty hacker and Chris just never put'em back yet.

 

> My roses are beginning to bloom - I just noticed this morning my Madame

> de Brabant is blooming (Teddy Roosevelt's favorite). And my Gallica

> rose (specific name I don't recall) is going to bloom this year,

> finally ... supposed to be a good one for rose petal jam.

 

Good luck to you fer'shur. :-P

 

> I couldn't help but cringe a bit to see photos of women tearing off the

> heads of the flowers ... but then, the piles of rose petals looked

> heavenly!

 

Don't cringe .. if you do come here .. try to pick a Rose Blossom any

differently than the way they do it .. then you can cringe. ;-) The

petal will come off in the hand if one is no careful. The Blossoms go

between the fingers .. hand facing the body .. that is the only way to

avoid the many little briars that will make you do the Boogie Woogie

Dance if they stick you. Those ladies can pick 25 Blossoms in the

same time you and I can pick 3 or 4. ;-)

 

> What an absolutely beautiful country!!

 

That it is for sure .. and so are the people. History here is written

in thousands or years .. some goes back to 8,000 B.C. In Europe its

in hundreds of years and in the USA even less.

 

> I've played with mosaics, so I really liked those photos, too.

 

One of the things I would show folks if I do start a tour thing .. is

a bunch of mosaics I have found in fields that are used for grazing ..

they are an inch or two below the soil in areas where old cities once

stood. Some of them are fantastic .. I have many photos of them but I

shipped them all back to the USA in 1994 when I thought I was going

back and they are in storage now.

 

> If I leave the country, that's where I want to go!

 

Lots of Europeans retire here .. many Americans do too but far more

Europeans. Prices here are cheap by American standards .. but when

compared to prices in Europe the Europeans go nuts. Martin wanted to

stop many times a day at a Pastahane (Bakery and Sweet Shop) because

he could get 3 or 4 different pastries and a cup of tea for what he

said was half of what he would pay for 1 pastry and no tea in the UK. ;-)

 

> Dede

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com