Best Western Annapolis Riva Rd

Randal and I spent the day strolling around Annapolis.  We had no particular plan other than to visit the Annapolis Book Store, walk around, eat some lunch, walk around and that’s about it.  We’d done the walking tour in past visits and we were between boat shows so there was no place we had to be or see or do.  Just strolling around Annapolis on a beautiful October day was enough.

Ru

How could anyone not like Annapolis?  There’s history, bookstores, lots of places to eat, cute little shops for window shopping or buying if you can’t resist.  (We resisted, because even though I really liked the $35 floppy felt hat, I know it would be lost in no time flat. The lovely $200 version wasn’t ever a consideration!)  During past visits we’d done the walking tour so skipped it this visit and just went out wandering.  It was such a lovely day just to be outside. http://www.annapolis.com/?ref=visitannapolis.com

The Maryland State House can be seen from anywhere so it’s pretty hard to get lost.

Leaving the parking garage and Visitor Center and heading down towards the waterfront.

Walking along funky Main Street where you always know where you are because the State House is always there as a landmark.

You can also take the trolley though we have always just parked at the visitor center and then walked.

Shops across from the waterfront.

Lots of ice cream, fudge, souvenirs, restaurants and fun in every direction.

Alex Haley reading Roots. Boat show banners block the entire waterfront which is really not so very attractive.

“City Docks has been the center of Annapolis’ maritime life for more than 300 years.  At the head of the Dock, a memorial commemorates the 1767 arrival of Kunta Kinte, and African slave immortalized by descendant Alex Haley in the book and television series Roots.”  from the Annapolis Magazine.

Randal and I have been to both the sailboat and powerboat shows when we were deciding what type of boat we wanted.   The 2012 sailboat show was last weekend and the powerboat show is next weekend.

The Annapolis Bookstore  www.annapolisbookstore.com

Every time we come to Annapolis we visit this wonderful bookstore.  Now it includes a coffee area and tables where locals meet for knitting, discussions, classwork, etc.  It’s great and I want that bookstore near where I finally live.  Saint John’s College, where the entire curriculum is based on the Great Books and discussions from the readings, is based just down the street.

I really want to read The End of Your Life Book Club which my library at home owns.  I just read the few pages available on Amazon’s site which led me to Diana Athill’s book  Instead of a Letter which I also want to read and I think is available at the Salem Public Library.  If not I’ll buy them before we leave for Turkey.  There is a branch of the Anne Arundel Public Library in Annapolis but not in the historic area so we’ve not been there any time in all of our visits.

More proof that the book format isn’t dead or even dying.

Row houses mix with small shops:  Capital Teas http://www.capitalteas.com/default.asp

I love these row houses and narrow streets and the feeling of neighborhood they must foster.

Building being renovated across from Waterfront  Dock: notice  Capital Tea s off to the left in the photo.

Chick and Ruth’s Delly on Main Street.

Our usual lunch spot where a booth is saved for the Governor when the legislator is in session.  One year during the boat show Randal and I stayed in the Scotlaur Inn.  www.ChickandRuths.com and www.Scotlaurinn.com

VIN909 – http://www.vin909.com/ “Just in case you get this while you’re still in Annapolis! You need to get Vin 909 – a great casual restaurant with delicious food -great ”gourmet’ pizza.”   This is from my friend Joesephine.  We didn’t make it there, but maybe next time or if you go…..

Annapolis is home to the United States Naval Academy and tours are available and worth taking.

The pedestrian entrance to the Naval Academy.

http://www.annapoliscollection.com/greg-harlin.cfm#

The Navy rules in Annapolis.

But there’s lots of other “stuff” too.  Lots of upscale shops.  Everything Irish is big in Annapolis too.

Fun window displays.   Marmaris has lots of rain in the winter; wouldn’t these boots be fun!

Lots of inspiration along the way; but I can’t remember seeing any political posters or yard signs, kind of a relief.

I know it’s tilted but my goal was to read the banner.

Curious and even more curious!

Front doors and front porches made me envious for life on land.

Lovely.

Tomorrow we head on up towards Massachusetts but not sure where we’ll spend the night.  Someplace new!

Best Western Riva Rd.

We left Chincoteague this morning and drove through the drizzle to Maryland where is stopped raining.  Tomorrow we’ll spend the day in historic Annapolis which is between weekends of the Sailboat and Powerboat shows.  I’m not so interested in the boat shows, but love to visit the bookstores.  No surprise there.

Ru

Chincoteague for the billionth time….

Randal and I have been to Chincoteague many times.  It’s a great place for lots of things, bike riding,  bird watching, beaches, sea food,  used books…etc.  This year the weather didn’t cooperate for our visit to the Assateague National Wildlife Area, but our walk through town and visit to the Sun Dial Bookstore was what we had come for.  www.sundialbooks.net is just a great place where locals and tourist meet about books.  It’s light and sunny and is a compliment to the great newly renovated Chincoteague Public Library which is also sunny and light and wonderful.  I’d visited the library many other times but this trip it was closed for Columbus Day Monday.   Sundial had lots of interesting books so, of course, I couldn’t leave without one. Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier was my purchase.  The author having spent many months saying the 3 times daily Jewish prayer for the dead for his father decides to examine why he does that and what is the prayer ‘s meaning.

After  the Sundial we went for lunch at Bill’s our favorite restaurant in Chincoteague. http://www.billsseafoodrestaurant.com/ Randal and I split a fried grouper sandwich with granny smith apple slaw and there was plenty for both of us.  I wish I’d asked them to toast the baguette which is how I remembered it from last year.   Then we strolled back to our motel with a stop at the ABC Store for some Glenfiddich for Randal and then the ATM to replenish our supply of $$$$$.  Late in the afternoon we did a drive around Assateague Island but that’s no so fun in the rain.  I did buy a post card at the visitor center to send off to our friends Heidi and Kalle in North Cyprus.  In the “latest adventures” link on her website www.heiditrautmann.com Heidi  wasn’t on the list so I sent off a post card from the post office in Chincoteague.  But North Cyprus isn’t on the list of countries given to US post offices. So I added Turkey to the address as most everything has to go through there first.  Interestingly the post office in Israel could deal with it.  So Heidi, we’ll see what happens!

Our old GPS had no clue this new bridge into Chincteague exists so our map showed us driving across water.

The new bridge skips the main road through “downtown” so I sign points the way.  And how to get out if there’s a hurricane.  We only had annoying drizzle.

Images of Chincoteague, great for birding and home the discendents of “Misty of Chincoteague.”

Horse With No Name Gallery…. It was the owner’s mom who was the “little girl in the Misty story.”

Actually, I’m not sure if this woman is the owner, Zebie Zay , but I am sure it was her mom who was in the Misty of Chincoteague story.

Randal and friend on the gallery’s great purple couch that had been a freebie as was most of the store’s furniture.

Guess these folks watch “Once Upon A Time” too.

The “trick is to….” I can’t read it or remember so you can make up your own answer.

http://chincoteagueislandlibrary.org/

Originally a barbershop, the Chincoteague Public Library renovated with the new addition. Years ago when we visited Chincoteague the library was just the tiny old barbershop building but still a vibrant part of the community.  They consider themselves “the little library that could.”   http://www.mydoramac.com/wordpress/?cat=138 shows the photos I took last year which show the inside.

http://sundial.indiebound.com/ is the website for Sundial Books which was closed last year ( on Tuesdays they close)  when we were here.  When you read about Jonathan and Jane  Richstein, you want them to open a book store where you live.    So good that we were in Chincoteague on a Monday though too bad it was Columbus Day Monday.  Being around books is how Randal and I spend a lot of our free time when we travel.

The pony round up and sale helps to support the Chincoteague Fire Department.

Bill’s Seafood Restaurant on Main Street is a favorite..but Moller’s Ice Cream Parlor is always closed in the fall.

Lots of Victorian homes with bright colors and gingerbread trim.

Lots of election signs and lots of ducks and other migrating birds.

So, we didn’t get the weather we’d hoped for, but we enjoyed our time visiting the shops along the main street and chatting with folks who now had the time after the busy summer season had past.  Then it was off to Annapolis…another favorite place with a really great bookstore I really like.

It is raining here in Chincoteague. . again.

From mid-April until September 18^th Randal and I have had only sunshine. ( No rain in Israel and no rain in Turkey until a sprinkle just the day before we left for the US.  Good thing we got our doses of Vitamin D before we came home as it’s been pretty dreary for the most part. )  Yesterday we did manage a fun morning walk here in Chincoteague and I went out again in the afternoon, but since then, just drizzle.  Good for farmers; not so great for travelers.  Last night found me sitting here in our room  typing this email while I enjoyed a glass of milbrandt vineyards 2009 Merlot that Sheila sent along with us.  One glass of wine and I don’t notice the rain or have a clue what they’re talking about on the PBS New Hour.  Actually I think they’re talking about the Nobel Prize winners for some achievement in Science;  DNA or whatever.   While walking through town we met a woman whose mom was the real  little girl in the Marguerite Henry story about Misty of Chincoteague.  More about the daughter when I write about Chincoteague.  This email is about Sheila and David.

In September 1968 I went off to UMass.  It wasn’t long after that when I met Sheila who lived a few floors above me in the John Quincy Adams tower.  Sheila and I are still friends!  Other things have changed in our lives, but not that.  Sheila and her husband live in a great house in a great location in Ashland, VA.  Walk out the door and hike through the woods….

I have just a few pictures as it’s hard to talk, talk, talk and take photos at the same time!  But I did manage to snap a few very early Sunday morning before David had to head off to work.

David and Sheila

David fixing coffee early Sunday morning before he had to head off to work.

David and Randal

Sheila and Randal

Nute relaxing

David painted this based on the painting of (I can’t remember.)  David is a wonderful artist and photographer!  He can fix most problems that befall their cars and can do lots of whatever the house might need too.

Again, all too quickly it was time for Randal and me to hit the road…off to Chincoteague.

Ru

Rodeway Inn

Hi All,

We left Roanoke Friday October 5^th and headed east.  Today, Monday, October 8^th we are in Chincoteague, VA hoping the sun really will keep shining for a bit.  No wifi as I type this but later today I’ll take my computer to the lobby and send this off.

Ru

Our Road Trip Starts…..

Friday afternoon Randal and I set off on our road trip to visit family and some old friends.  We stopped off for a quick visit with Randal’s brother Don and nephew Donald Ray to say hello.  Then it was off to Big Island, just past Bedford,  to spend the night with Linda and Ken Burger, Randal’s sister and brother-in-law.  I love them and their home is just the neatest place nestled at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains with the requisite bubbling stream running alongside the house that sang me to sleep.   We talked and ate and walked and ate and went off to visit an exhibit of Sustainable Living at the Sedalia Center and then to the old Otter Mill which is in the process of being restored.

Linda and Ken’s place

Sit on the front porch and listen to the stream that runs by the side of the house.

Lots of history and family treasures.

Lots of good talk and good food!

Getting ready for dinner.

Reverend Ken giving thanks and sharing bread.

Randal tuning Linda’s guitar and Linda relaxing and enjoying the time with us.

We spent lots of great time in this corner talking, looking at old family photos and applauding Randal while he sang the country songs he’d written

Saturday morning after a great breakfast that included some of Linda’s homemade, from scratch, biscuits we went off to the Sedalia Center just down the road.   http://www.sedaliacenter.org/

The Gathering at Sedalia – For Sustainability and the Art of Mindful Living

Learning about electric cars.

This man’s copper work caught our eye.  Randy Cox I believe.  He also builds race cars!

Talking about the old smithy equipment.

Once upon a time Linda and Randal’s dad had owned and used similar smithy tools and furnace.

I call it “smithy” because there are silversmiths and coppersmiths and blacksmiths and all of the tools are similar though the products are quite different.

Molds for different sized pieces and some of the beautiful finished products.

Ken saw me admiring this copper leaf and treated me to it.  I will get some beautiful satin cord and wear it and look quite lovely!

Then we hopped back into the car and drove down  Rt. 122 to the” old red mill” I’d always admired when we’d passed it going to see Linda and Ken.  We thought it was the Saturday there were to be tours but we were a week early.

http://www.bigottermill.com/ Rt. 122 Big Island Highway

Big Otter Mill is situated on the bank of the Big Otter River, a few miles north of the City of Bedford, Virginia on Route 122 North, south of Big Island.

The site of this mill has been used for grist and sawmills for more than two hundred years

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A very animated discussion about how the mill must have once operated.

A very lovely setting.

A very wonderful visit that sped by all too fast.  From Big Island we were heading to Ashland, Virginia to visit my college buddy Sheila and her husband David, their dog Nute and cat Casey.

Ru

Hi Y’All,

And hopefully all Y’all will get this.  My computer was totally upgraded and that’s great but it didn’t save the groups I’d created to send out these blog mails.  So if you don’t get this let me know.  Actually I figure if someone has fallen off the list and misses my mailings they’ll let me know.  If not, I won’t be offended and hopefully they won’t either.

So since we’ve been home we’ve spent more time with medical professionals than with family or friends.  I’ve had one of about everything as it was time for my “once every 10 years colonoscopy.”  If you have to do it, go with the blue Gatorade.

Friday we’re heading off to visit friends family and friends in other parts of Virginia and “up north” though we still haven’t actually made a real plan yet.  No way can you wing it in a boat as you need to know weather and anchorages and marina availability.  Every other year  we’ve had plans made even before we got home.  Not sure what happened this year……

So that’s what’s happening.  Just to let you know.

Ru

Merhaba,

Leshana tova tekatev v’techatem.  May you be inscribed for a good year!  

      How are Randal and I celebrating Rosh Hashanah?  We’re going to a marina barbecue over by the pool but I promise not to eat pork or shell fish if there is any.  I did eat an apple today and some dried fruit mash spread that I made.  So I have had something sweet.  Funny enough the picture from the Huffington Post whose info I stole (ok as they don’t pay for it either) shows a photo from Ashdod, Israel where a man is throwing bread into the Mediterranean symbolizing throwing away your sins.  Throwing bread into the Mediterranean is something I can do! 

     For those who are unfamiliar with Rosh Hashanah or those like me who don’t remember so much from Hebrew School here is the article……

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is celebrated in 2012 from sundown on Sept. 16 to nightfall on Sept. 18. The Hebrew date for Rosh Hashanah is 1 Tishrei 5773.

Though Rosh Hashanah literally means "head of the year," the holiday actually takes place on the first two days of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, which is the seventh month on the Hebrew calendar. This is because Rosh Hashanah, one of four new years in the Jewish year, is considered the new year of people, animals and legal contracts. In the Jewish oral tradition, Rosh Hashanah marks the completion of the creation of the world.

Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of the Jewish High Holy Days, or Yamim Noraim (the "Days of Awe"), and is followed 10 days later by Yom Kippur, the "day of atonement." The Mishnah refers to Rosh Hashanah as the "day of judgment," and it is believed that God opens the Book of Life on this day and begins to decide who shall live and who shall die. The days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are viewed as an opportunity for Jews to repent (teshuvah, in Hebrew) and ensure a good fate.

Jews traditionally gather in synagogues on Rosh Hashanah for extended services that follow the liturgy of a special prayerbook, called a mahzor, that is used during the Days of Awe. At specific times throughout the service, a shofar, or ram’s horn, is blown. The mitzvah (commandment) to hear the shofar, a literal and spiritual wake-up call, is special to this time of year.

The new year is the only Jewish holiday that is observed for two days by all Jews (other holidays are observed for just one day within the Land of Israel) as it is also the only major holiday that falls on a new moon.

A common greeting on Rosh Hashanah is shana tovah u’metukah, Hebrew for "a good and sweet new year." Many traditional Rosh Hashanah foods — apples and honey, raisin challah, honey cake and pomegranate — are eaten, in part, for this reason. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/16/rosh-hashanah-2012-the-je_n_1887610.html

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You may recall that while we were in North Cyprus DEKS was a favorite place where I took Turkish lessons and Randal and I joined the Thursday morning hikes.  Denise was both teacher and hike leader.  Her daughter Deena and son-in-law would come visit from Marmaris, Turkey where TK is a headquartered as a member of the Turkish Navy.  Deena and TK came for dinner Friday night.  Deena has a wonderful voice.  You saw photos of her singing at a DEKS Good-bye dinner for the cruisers we all attended.  She would like to learn guitar and Thursday night she had her first lesson from Randal.  When we come back in November hopefully they will continue.

Ru

DoraMac

Deena and TK come to dinner on DoraMac Friday, September 14, 2012

Motorbike salt and pepper shakers and Deena eating all of her vegs.

Guitar lesson # 1

Merhaba,

  Yesterday was a fun day that started at 5 am and ended about 11 pm.  I (Randal skipped it) was to meet Mary and Rick for another 7 am hike, so set the alarm for 5 am.  I like to have time for tea and oatmeal, email and not rushing.  We finished the hike and our after hike ice drinks just short of noon.  While we’d been hiking my phone rang.  Deena Bibby, the daughter of our DEKS pal Denise, lives in Marmaris with her Turkish Naval husband TK.  She, Randal and I made plans to meet in town at 2PM.  At 7 PM it was the Tuesday Cruiser Happy Hour/Stay for Dinner at Pineapple so Randal and I went off to that.  We got back to Doramac about 10:30 pm.  Time to read and have some tea before turning out the lights and sleeping like a log!  Today I pretty much just read and relaxed and that was about it.

  One of the books I’m reading is called Drinking With Dead Women Writers.  The joint authors imagine meeting up with famous dead women authors and having a drink and talking about the women’s lives.  Cute book.   I came across this quote by Louise May Alcott.  It totally reminds me of our friend Heidi Trautmann and I told her so!  The trick when you are retired and living in a marina is making each day useful….Hmmmm.  I’ll have to work on that.

Ru

“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”

Never-ending Trail Hike

Mary, Rick and I hiked back up the Never-ending Trail Tuesday seeing if we could get to what we would recognize as “the top.” We didn’t get there.

We met at the marina entrance at 7 am and walked the half mile to where the trail starts. We wound our way up and up and up, at each bend wondering what was just around the next bend. Finally at 9 am we stopped; the trail kept going. When we return in November, the weather will be better for all-day hikes and we’ll see if we ever find the end of the trail.

It hasn’t rained in months; this water comes from a mountain stream that has been fitted with a pipe and a tin cup hangs there for thirsty hikers….who are brave enough to drink it. We weren’t and didn’t. I have heard that any stream in Turkey is drinkable and did drink from a decorative public fountain in Guneykent last year.

We saw trails going up and down and every which way. We’ll try those in the Fall.

Nice photo of me! by Mary

My friend Ellen’s sister worked on the play Wicked so I have the T-Shirt. My shorts used to be Randal’s and went around the world with him in 2000. This may be their last year as shorts as they are getting close to being rags even as I wear them.

The views were worth the hike and the exercise felt really good.

Very Lovely

Time for snacks!

Mary resting on a rock before heading back down the mountain.

(Still having some light meter issues.)

Merhaba,

One of the main reasons we came to Marmaris is because of Gwen on KW. Read about her at http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/04/04/gwen-of-kw/ She has lived In Turkey for umpteen years and around the Middle East even longer working here and there for the U.S. State Department. Gwen organizes stuff; week-long trips to far off places, shorter trips closer to Marmaris and fun afternoon trips off for lunch someplace not Marmaris. Today’s lunch trip was to Orhaniye, a fairly short mini-bus ride over the mountains and along the coast eastward. Randal and I had passed Orhaniye several times last year traveling on our motorbike but had never stopped for lunch. We did stop for a flea market and that was fun.

There were about a dozen of us on the minibus, but our lunch group was larger as we met up with Bill and Judy on BeBe and Brian, Jackie from Songster, artist Christina Kirk (now Christina O’Keeffe) and her husband Terry. http://symidream.com/wp/services/gallery/christina-kirk-marca/ is a bit about her artwork. She and her husband run sailing charters in the Mediterranean. www.msykontiki.com is their site. All were docked on the short pier provided by the restaurant. Many restaurants offer that type of service, you park there and then eat there and the parking is free. (At least at some restaurants. I didn’t ask if that was true of this one so don’t quote me if you go there and want free boat parking.)

My camera’s light meter is now refusing to take any kind of decent photo if there is a big difference between light and shadow. So some of these photos were pretty poor and doctoring them up with Microsoft Photo Manager didn’t help all that much. Definitely a new camera this trip home.

Lovely setting.

Off the boat, walk the dock, and into the small restaurant.

http://www.orhaniye.net/accommodation/pansiyons/ersoy-pansiyon/

Getting settled in.

Gwen, Judy and Bill…this was one of the light meter issue photos.

Mary and Rick, our hiking buddies…more light meter issues. (Couldn’t possibly be the photographer!)

Brian, Jackie, Trish, David, Randal, (me) Mary, Rick, Gwen, Judy and Bill who you can just see a bit of next to Judy.

Settling up the bill.

Happy Anniversary Judy and Bill

Bill and Judy were celebrating anniversary number 43.

As for the food, we had salad and French fries while we waited for our orders. (More of us were Americans so I can call them fries rather than chips as the Brits do.) And dessert was halva, grapes from their vines, fresh figs from their trees, and watermelon. For his meal Randal had grilled sea bass, but sometimes I’m too lazy to deal with all the bones. So I ordered the grilled calamari trying to be healthy instead of having it fried.

So how many of you have had grilled calamari that actually looks like what it was when it was out swimming around in the Med?

I’ve eaten calamari before and had great fried “small cut up pieces” in Israel and at DEKS in Cyprus. Calamari tentacles small and fried seem less tentacle-like. When I ordered it today, Gwen asked if I knew what I was doing…guess not! It tasted good. But I was expecting calamari for wimps, cut into small unidentifiable pieces. I guess I should have ordered the fried calamari. Actually I think my days of eating non-kosher fish may be coming to an end.

Ru

Merhaba,

  We spent almost a year in China and I don’t remember experiencing the frustration of blocked website the way I have since we’ve returned to Turkey this year.  China blocks facebook, but I don’t really do facebook so didn’t really notice.  And on occasion .gov site were blocked but nothing I couldn’t get around and access another way.  Even our website, www.mydoramac.com was blocked for a time.  Again I could find the info, text was one place and photos another. And I could use the magazine database from my Roanoke County Public Library and my Library Card.  How great is that!   But here in Turkey all sorts of things come up blocked.  Today on Google News there was a link to a Rolling Stone article about Mitt Romeny and Bain.  When I tried to acces it, I got another of those Access Denied pages.  As we were leaving Turkey last year, academics and journalists, and lots of just "general public" were protesting Turkey’s planned censoring of the Internet by forcing every provider to pick a filter whether they wanted to or not.  Turkey calls itself a democracy but you can’t tell that by Internet Access.  This article focuses on Rolling Stone being blocked in China and it is one comment that points to the same problem in Turkey.  I tried to pull up a site that spoke about the problem in Turkey and, you guessed it, Access Denied.  In case anyone from the Turkish government is reading this, I don’t feel protected, I feel insulted that you don’t think I’m intelligent enough to make my own decisions or evaluate information that I read.  Shame on you!  As for blaming Rolling Stone for the block, how would that cause comments about Rolling Stone access in Turkey to also be blocked? 

Anyway, that’s my rant for today. 

Ru

Access Denied! That’s the message greeting China-based readers of Rollingstone.com, the online version of the iconic music and cultural magazine Rolling Stone. But this isn’t the work of the rampaging Net Nanny but rather a deliberate block on Chinese IP addresses that seems to stem from the publishers. That ain’t very rock ‘n’ roll.

As it’s a geolocation-based restriction, let’s say it has been geotarded, which is my favourite etymologically-edgy epithet. This is usually done by music or video content providers who want to stop certain regions from accessing licensed content, but it’s rarely done by news or topical sites. We reached out to Rolling Stone for comment late yesterday, but have yet to get a response.

The geotarding seems to cover the whole of mainland China but not Hong Kong, as I was able to confirm by using a HK-based IP proxy. Going to any page on the website brings up an error message, such as:

Access Denied. You don’t have permission to access “http://www.rollingstone.com/music/” on this server.

And then there’s a long reference number, as shown in the top image. The Twitter user @beijingdaze, who first alerted me to this, says that access was normal to the site very recently and the geotarded blank page has only showed up in the past two days.

The magazine version of Rolling Stone was launched in China in 2006 (left) only to be shut down due to licensing issues a few weeks later. In now sells under the ‘InMusic’ name.

In this unusual scenario, there are a few possible reasons for Rolling Stone making this very un-liberal exclusion: perhaps the site was the victim of a hack attack that emanated from China, and therefore wanted to lock itself down; it was done to protect the copyright of new music or video on the site; or, it’s some technical error that no internal tech staffers have spotted.

The magazine version of Rolling Stone was launched in China in early 2006 only to be strangled by interminable red tape just a few weeks later. The publisher Wenner Media persisted, and it was resurrected with a different name and a fresh publishing license a short while later. It’s currently sold branded as ‘InMusic’ magazine (as pictured above).

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Merhaba,

  Just catching up on some of the zillions of photos I’ve taken.  I had lots of cat photos as there seem relatively few stray dogs here.

Ru

Cats of Marmaris

I’ve taken lots of photos of stray cats here Marmaris. So I thought it would be fun to do an email of the cats because many of them are such “hams.” Today I searched the Internet seeing if anyone had written about the cats here as they are cared for quite well compared to what we saw in Cyprus. Lots of food and water is put out around town and many of the cats have clipped ears to show they have been neutered. When I typed in cats of Marmaris’, up popped the Facebook site of the Marmaris Cat Shelter. When we return from Roanoke in November I’ll contact them and see about doing some volunteering. I did donate to the Awl Grip ladies who feed the cats that come by their marine supply shop. Other people put out food also. And big bowls of water. Nice!

http://www.marmarisinfo.com/kittycat/ Marmaris Cat Shelter

“HOW DO WE HELP THE STREET CATS WITHOUT CREATING A NEW PROBLEM?

Feed them by all means, but not in the restaurants, not in the hotels. find the nearest dustbin and feed them there. they are already feeding from the bins, so nothing changes there.

If a cat appears on your balcony, don’t immediately take it into your room and start to care for it!!!!! I know its hard but you have to think of the consequences, don’t teach it to be cared for when you are not going to be there in a couple of weeks,……

take the food and coax them to the dustbins and feed them there. When you leave at the end of your holidays they will still find food in those bins, and they wont be too used to human contact.

Please remember that feral or semi feral cats survive better with support rather than totally domesticating them, and that’s exactly what we do when we take them into our rooms and our arms, the closer you get to the street cats the more you take away their chances of survival and their independence.”

Obviously we did the absolutely most wrong thing in Israel befriending the kitty near our boat. But it did give him a “healthy start.” Eve says he doesn’t come round her boat much anymore; but had learned to feed himself from the fishermen and to share the bowls of food that were often put out at the entrance gate. I am glad that here there is a shelter so if we find a cat in distress; at least we can call someone.

From a shop near the marina.

Hundreds of cats, thousands of cats……The cats near the Awl Grip marine supply store early one morning.

Cats everywhere you look.

Morris?

He’s thinking, “Yes…I’ll put up with you and your camera.”

What a cutie!

What interesting coloring so I took a "portrait."

Many of the cats look as if they’ve been colored in by someone who had no clue what cats should look like, so they have bits of color blobbed onto their faces.

Jungle cats….

Cats’ eyes.

Clipped ears indicate this cat has been neutered

One-eyed Jack would be a great name for this cat.

I met him near the restaurants within the marina. He came over for some rubs and then made as if to follow me to town. Luckily a woman walking a dog came along so cat decided he’d stay in the marina which was a relief to me.

This interesting looking cat was waiting in the bazaar where food is put out by many of the shops.

Making himself comfortable along Bar Street.

Not yet open for business but good for resting.

I woke him up when I got closer to take a photo.

Street food for cats.

Little piles of food are put out so the cats won’t fight as each has his own spot.

A stray piece of chicken dôner kebap from our friends, maybe an accident, maybe sharing with the cats.

Bowls of water are put out also.