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The Karagöz puppets reflect on the culture shock of seclusion
; We awoke in Tulum, Mexico, after our long trip and long stop at La Carretta in Miami, for too much delicious Cuban food. And soon enough, there we were, in the hotel, bellies full of good Mexican...
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Los Aguaschiles Restaurant: The Karagöz puppets swoon in Tulum, Mexico
The morning after our foray into Tulum Pueblo on beater bikes to beat the band, we were sore, yet determined to return for more mariscos. After experiencing an almost life-changing Sobada Maya (Arvigo...
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On pointless pursuits: Of Tiryaki, opium and seaweed raking in Tulum, Mexico
On our last day on the Tulum playa, Tiryaki (the puppet with opium addiction since the 1300s) slunk out of his sleeping spot at 6:59 a.m. and commenced watching the beach – waiting to see if the...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections … on tea, çay, chai and my personal,...
Source: twitter.com via Liz on Pinterest ; Early this morning, Esma the hippie puppet woke me with a whisper, saying only “it’s a new day – and you need to reflect on your personal globalized reality.”...
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Turkey for Thanksgiving – or – Dinner with Donkeys in Dipkarpaz
I had to make the joke. Karagöz the trickster puppet – and fan of bad jokes - has been bugging me for weeks to do so. “If you are really going to make the trek to Cyprus for Thanksgiving, you’d …...
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Turkey’s today, in a taxi
Yehuda Rebbe, the quiet observer, steps up to the first base of my mind and corrects me before I even tell the story. “She says Turkey, and indeed we found the update on Turkey there in the taxi – but...
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Don’t ask soldiers for directions: Getting scammed, getting lost, getting giggly
What couple doesn’t know that you can learn much about your relationship through travel “experiences.” We learned early on that we did well together on this front, with M. managing the driving aspect...
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Ali of the Karpaz Penninsula’s Golden Beach
Our first foray to Cyprus brought us 24 hours of firsts – the first time we have gotten lost as a couple, the first time eating deliciously crunchy fried haloumi cheese (yum) – and the first time in...
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Westward Ho!: Of scorched earth and strawberries in Yeşilırmak
As you may have seen from our last post, we’ve been eating our way across Cyprus. Thankfully, we were lucky enough to find an amazing restaurant run by a Turkish Cypriot re-patriot named Mustafa....
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An unexpected interfaith moment in the Muratlı mosque
Muratlı Village is hardly the place you would expect to find cosmopolitan and open armed views about the intermingling of religions and global peace. And we could use a bit of an interfaith moment...
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The Karagöz puppets have a psychotic experience in Bursa
Recently, I went to visit the puppets while they were on sabbatical in Turkey. We met up in Istanbul and took in some sightseeing in Safranbolu before heading to their point of origin – Bursa. As you...
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The puppets celebrate a wedding on the Georgian border
The Karagöz puppets are all a-twitter about the upcoming Valentine’s day celebration. Between valentine-making parties and the preparation of sweets, you can imagine that they haven’t been thinking...
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The puppets dream of Marmaris – but land in Miami, and beyond!
A week or so ago, after my 14 hour work day, the puppets longed for sleep. On the way home in the car, they even began to fight for space on my head, where they like to hang upside-down like … Continue...
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The Karagoz puppets find Mehtap…in Tulum, Mexico
Although they had dreamed of a visit to Marmaris to warm their nascent puppet bones, the Karagoz shadow puppet troupe decided that Miami was ok, once they landed there. For one thing, it was warm, and...
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Afiyet olsun: Karagöz revels in the joy of a Tulum cóctel de mariscos
Although we have been taken up with rhetoric-related battles over tears and corpses in Turkey as of late, the Karagöz puppets do want me to recognize that it is time to get back to the telling of the...
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Ugly Turkish-Americans? Mercan Bey finds camels in Tulum, Mexico
When we last left you, Karagöz was almost marinating in his cóctel de mariscos over at El Camello Restaurant in Tulum Pueblo in the Quintana Roo province of Mexico‘s Yucatan penninsula. Since Karagöz...
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The Karagöz puppets look for beauty in decay
With only my right arm up & running (aka hunt & pecking), it’s photo essay time! Glory in decay has been a subject of interest for the puppets in their travels through Türkiye and the US. Seey...
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The Karagöz puppets dream of Morocco: Chicken and parsnip tagine with coriander
Pecked out before my arm really started to hurt. We are still standing & M. is still cooking! My arm is hurting, a lot. I can type, but doing anything with my arm above my heart is painful. It also...
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Weekly photo challenge: Delicate
Yes, this is my Weekly Photo Challenge entry for “Delicate,” and yes, I am entering a photo of a stone wall. Karagöz scoffs at the notion of a stone wall as delicate…but reconsiders. Let me tell you...
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Bachelors, dudes and dağı: On respecting your elders…and reality TV
It may come as a surprise that M. and I watch a really trashy American reality television program each week. Namely, I say blushing, we watch programs from “The Bachelor” TV franchise. In this reality...
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Oasis at Afilon: A Hotel Review by the Karagöz Puppets
After escaping both the end-of-the earth wonders and exorbitant food prices at Burhan’s Golden Beach, we made a b-line for the Oasis at Afilon, on the northern side of Dipkarpaz’s coast, facing Turkey,...
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Karagöz oyunları in Kantara Castle
As we drove west from the Karpaz Peninsula, we set our sights on visiting Kantara Castle. Of course, the Karagöz puppets (Karagöz oyunları) were over the moon about the idea of visiting a castle...
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Kranky in Kyrenia – Including – A 2nd Round with Soldiers
Harrumph. I’d had just about enough of sitting upright all day with an increasingly resistant-to-medicine pain in my side despite the resplendent views on our way down the north slopes of Kantara...
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Çiftlik Evi: Mercan Bey & M. Sniff Out Delicious Food (Yet Again)
As you may have learned over the years here at Slowly-by-Slowly, one of the Ottoman-era puppets who inhabits my brain (with the goal of assisting me in my cross-cultural marital road trip) is Mercan...
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Head for the Zeytin Cafe in Ürgüp, Kapadokya
While on their homecoming tour of Cappadocia (Kapadokya), the Karagöz puppets stumbled upon the most wonderful restaurant in Ürgüp. As you will recall, Mercan Bey, the spice trader, is an expert at...
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