Asia received me with a huge board saying "Hoş geldiniz Asya", but the sky kept on crying and crying while I was passing through the industrial outskirts of Constantinople. When I got to Bursa, it started whimpering. So I spent the first hour in meditation inside Ulucami (Ulujami, New Mosque), but since it didn't want to stop raining, I settled myself for another half an hour in the Yeşil Cami (Yeshil Jami, Green Mosque), listening the sermon. I felt warm and I felt good.

I ended the day with a visit to a classical Turkish shadow-puppet theatre Karagöz, and in this moment I am being spoiled with a cup of tea by the guys at Fulinternet (www.fulinternet.50megs.com) in a pleasant street behind the big concrete building of the head PTT.

No bombs today, no terrorists, no accidents. Alhamdulillah!

Photos: Traffic jam on the Bosphorus bridge.


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