For nine months, we are renting a three-story house in
Fener, formerly a Greek area, now a neighborhood in a state of visually beautiful decay. It is on the European side of Istanbul, along the water of the Hali
ç/Golden Horn, and is a fifteen minute bus ride to the oldest part of the city. The house sits half-way up the side of a cliff-like hill. It was restored by a British diplomat who moved away years ago when his station changed. The first floor has a guest room, bath and a future second guest room (if we get it together to buy another bed.) The second floor is the kitchen and living room. The third floor is our bedroom, bath and a wide hall we use for drying clothes. As our neighborhood photos will attest, there are no electric dryers for miles, and there has been some small disagreement in-house as to whether dryers are strictly necessary. There is a washer in the basement with cyphers on its dials and an adjacent darkroom for photography that we hope to make workable. The multiple fish tanks in the house are a story for another day.
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Breakfast |
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Our kitchen |
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View from the stairs |
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Living room |
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New fish tank
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Our bedroom with a balcony |
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Third-floor bath |
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Stairs down to second floor |
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First floor stairs
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Guest bath
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Guest bedroom
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Front door. Tomorrow we'll post pics of the neighborhood outside. |
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Red dot is our location. Left side of the map is Europe, and the right is in Asia. The small waterway near us is the Haliç/Golden Horn, the large waterway in the upper right is the Bosphorus, and the open water on the lower part of the map is the Sea of Marmara. |
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ReplyDeletelovely! I'm looking forward to more pictures...
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