belson

Well. Now I'm in Istanbul on a roof terass in the sun, listening to Bob and writing on my novel (that I hate). This is my view over the Blue moske:

My last days in Syria was great. Sam and I visited Homs, Hama, Crac des Chevallier and another castle called Musayaf. 

Crac des Chevallier was very nice but even better was the other castle except for that we could'nt enter because they were closed on tuesdays (of all days) and we didnt know that. Anyway we saw a lot of the green beautiful contruside of Syria, eat good food and we also met an interesting general (because someone left his passport in Damascus and without passport - no hotel) so we went to the policestaion and had an entertaining experience with the byråkrati (swedish) and the hierki (can't even spell it in swedish) of Syria. It was fun! 

I did'nt really do all the turistic-thing I decided to do before I left Damascus but some of them are checked of the list:

-Walked up on Jebel Quasion and got ripped of on one of the kitshy cafés on the top (but it was nice view and nice company so that did'nt matter)

-Visited some art-galleries and was very impressed by the artist called Anas something, who has an exhibition in the Operahouse-lobby. 

-Drank a lot of tea with a lot of nice people, miss you all!

Next time I will visit the National Museeum, yes I will.

Here in Istanbul I spent the wekeend with my swedish friend who was here visiting. We had a great time, walked around, drank coffe on Starbucks, walked around, drank coffe on Starbucks, walked around...

And also we ate a lot of nice food and drank fine wine, so now I have a lot of fat to use for my central asian trip (russian food is not my thing).

Now I will wait here for my Turmenistan visa, and then try to sort out the Uzbekistani one as fast as possible. 

Hate visas, and I hate waiting. 

Well, that's life and life is good...

xx