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Summer plans.

Le monde est grand (luh moand eh gran) - French for 'the world is big'. I like this name for a travel journal. There's the obvious: I'll be seeing another few dots on the globe this summer. But also...

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Here's the website for the project I'll be working at this summer:http://catal.arch.cam.ac.uk/catal/index.html

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wheee!

in paris dddoing well - on a crappy kiosk that doesn't haev a backspace key. have written soem schtuff on my laptopp - will post it when i find a n internet cafe proper. spent day in louvvre. word.b

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Bonjour.

Good thing I am used to problems with sleep. I went out for the fourth. Needless to say, due to the libations I was up late and slept little and poorly. I woke up later than planned to an unpacked bag...

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'People are strange, when you're a stranger'

Friday, July 8, 10am.Wednesday night was awesome. Went out with a bunch of people from the hostel to the park around the Eiffel tower to drink cheap wine (under two bucks, and it wasn't that bad) and...

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Mon ami

Sunday, July 10, 4pmMuch to my surprise, I got an email from my friend Caro. She's in Paris. She wants to meet up.Sweet.Friday afternoon, we meet at the Champs-Elysees, at the giant Louis Vuitton...

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French impression..ism & moving on

Monday, July 11, 4amFrance was really... French. As I guess you could say about anywhere, they had their own way of doing things.The city layout was pretty new to me. I'm used to an omphalos, a center,...

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Comments

Friends-If you leave comments, please keep 'em PG. My parents are reading and I've just invited a bunch of my old high school teachers.Word.

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'Hello my friend. Where are you from? Please look at my rugs.'

These last few days I've been aswirl in the energy that is Turkey. The way of the Turks has taken me asunder, I'm merely a molecule in the current that pulls us all along. And it has been...

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Turkeyyy

I think I see a pattern in my travels, if you can discern a pattern from only two stops. Two days of hyper-tourism, a day of just people watching/city absorbing, a day of reading, relaxing, writing. I...

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Catalhoyuk

So, I've finished my first full week at Catalhoyuk, not only one of the most famous archaeological sites in Turkey, but in the World. The site was discovered and excavated by James Mellaart in the...

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Methodology

Catalhoyuk has gone through two phases of excavation, and radically different methodologies have been applied during each phase. First we had John Mellaart in the nineteen sixties, who was just like...

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The Floor Below

The main problem with being trusted as a full on archaeologist, is, well, that you often still act like a novice. I've gone through two floors already, just troweled on by as if they didn't even exist....

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Unconventional education

Today a rock taught me to fly.About one hundred meters in sits a vertical precipice of a rock that looks as though it dove off the shore's neighboring cliffs. Surrounding the rock is nothing but deep...

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LADRÓN!! (thief)

...and Turkey Time strikes back.My bus from Olympis was supposed to arrive in Istanbul at a little before 7:00am on 18/08/05, but it pulls on into that station at 8:10. I have an international flight...

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Summer plans.

Le monde est grand (luh moand eh gran) - French for 'the world is big'. I like this name for a travel journal. There's the obvious: I'll be seeing another few dots on the globe this summer. But also...

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Article 13

Here's the website for the project I'll be working at this summer:http://catal.arch.cam.ac.uk/catal/index.html

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wheee!

in paris dddoing well - on a crappy kiosk that doesn't haev a backspace key. have written soem schtuff on my laptopp - will post it when i find a n internet cafe proper. spent day in louvvre. word.b

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Bonjour.

Good thing I am used to problems with sleep. I went out for the fourth. Needless to say, due to the libations I was up late and slept little and poorly. I woke up later than planned to an unpacked bag...

View Article

'People are strange, when you're a stranger'

Friday, July 8, 10am.Wednesday night was awesome. Went out with a bunch of people from the hostel to the park around the Eiffel tower to drink cheap wine (under two bucks, and it wasn't that bad) and...

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