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Istanbul, Turkey, Page Two This link for Istanbul page One

Tuesday 25th October 2016

The Bosphorus to the North-East

An earlier start on the Byzantine Heritage tour. This started at a derelict church, after driving alone a road lined with wedding dress shops! The Church of St. George, known as the Chora Museum, is undergoing renovation but has amazing 11th-12thC mosaics on the ceiling & some frescoes as well.

Slums

Chora under reconstruction

Chora as it is supposed to look

The Chora Mosaics

The Chora Frescos

Then, past a stretch of the city walls, Theodosius’ but improved later, to the premises of the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, who has always been resident here. At the side of his digs is another St. George Church for the monastery, which has a lot of gold leaf &, unusually, seats. (Normally, the congregation stand).

The Patriarch's Palace

The Patriarch's Chapel

In the Chapel

Finally, we went up into the Old City for the cisterns. These were constructed in early Christian times to store fresh water during sieges, are enormous & the roof is held up by recycled Roman temple columns, some features of which are upside down & sideways on but this was a strictly utilitarian operation.

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The Sun came out today. We were back in time for lunch, after which I processed photos. The evening’s show was a singer we had heard before, Anthony Stuart Lloyd, a giant Welshman who sang easy listening plus Non piu andrei with an arrangement for the ship’s band which stretched the imagination rather. Ditto Myfanwy.


Port 1 - Gibraltar

Port 2 - Valletta

Port 3 - Varna

Port 4 - Constanta

Port 5 - Odessa

Port 6 - Sochi

Port 8 - Dikili

Port 9 - Kusadasi

Port 10 - Athens

Port 11 - Catania

Port 12 - Almeria

Port 13 - Leixoes


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