Scene change: Gümüşsuyu

Tolga, Funda, and Ege moved back to their original home in Büyükçekmece and I moved to a room in Gümüşsuyu (which I found through Airbnb). The hosts (a young couple, Turkish and American) are quite welcoming; I happen to be their first Airbnb guest, so there are a few details to be figured out as we go. Strangely enough, we have common interests. Rumeysa is a journalist covering various art exhibitions and James is an newspaper editor and happens to be studying Ottoman history. Small world indeed.

This morning I got up pretty early to see friends, Phil and Courtney, from the UA for breakfast before they left Istanbul for Ankara and back to the U.S. Here we are with our huge meals:

Below are the streets of Gümüşsuyu

I made my way downhill to a tea garden on the Bosphorus, where I spent a couple hours (and started a new drawing).

Get that cruise ship out of my view!

After it turned, all the ferries rushed past.

I had wanted to visit the Museum of Innocence, but it was inexplicably closed this afternoon. I'll go back another day; in the meantime, here is a photo of the area. 

After this I stopped to buy ingredients to make kısır, somehow forgetting to buy a lemon, but I was too lazy to go back out again and get one. Yeah, that lazy.