Stockholm, 27 June – 1 July

good morning İstanbul! Günaydın! stashed our luggage at the Hilton and headed out to the flea market minutes from it. The ladies, by Maurice Sendak, pictured above prepared gözleme with spinach and feta. Inspired, I contemplated restarting my typewriter collection and other aberrations, like a good flea market should. I

I am hoping to catch up to historic events along our trajectory from KSA to Oman, before the war, even Egypt, a post about which I have started, after months . . . to current events. Today is International Women's Day in İstanbul. The police are out in force bearing arms

yes this is before the war, the area Juffair, الجفير, on reclaimed land, it had been a US dormitory area, hotels, for the base ... and grew. More was as Jalal said re-landed. Jo headed back to Riyadh, accompanied on the plane by: I waited on my visa, with the invaluable