From Allen the Ali... |
Hakan Yavuz, author, the next Orhan Pamuk, in the grounds of Bosphorus University (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), Istanbul.
Allen started as a novelty prize in a piñata in a week-late Cinqo de Mayo party in Calgary, Canada, in mid-May, 2007. Not an auspicious beginning for an alien of such an adventurous nature.
Travelling with his much more cautious partner, Hume, he set off to see the world - well at least some of it - on the way from Calgary to Brisbane. He's been waylaid a few times.
This is his story.
From Allen the Ali... |
Hakan Yavuz, author, the next Orhan Pamuk, in the grounds of Bosphorus University (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), Istanbul.
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Barcelona's Park Guell, tile-work by Antoni Gaudi
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Jasmin, the girl who served breakfast and snacks in the rooftop cafe of our very modest hotel in Cairo.
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Antoni came third as a middle-weight wrestler in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He now owns a souvenir store in Luxor.
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The weekly markets at Darow, about half way between Aswan and Luxor on the Nile
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Aboard the Felucca: Australian, Maria, enroute to see family in Greece, and Josh, the Californian, doing a Cairo to Cape Town trek.
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Aswan Nile Felucca (sale-boat) captain, Captain Joe, in a tea-house/ Sheesha house