Life in Ankara through pictures...

Snow? Dust? Flying puffs of cotton? Nope, none of the above...it's droplets from the nearby fountain showering the scene.













Ataturk is looking at the youngsters...he's still watchin' you, kid! he's a big national hero who brought to Turkey the latin alphabet and created a day for kids on the 23rd of April, which was exactly when we were there...thus, there were posters of Ataturk everywhere! The nameless hero next to him is stationed on top of one of the many stores in the center, keeping the peace.





















Some views from our Bulgarian group and the international group we stumbled upon, with representation from Poland, Romania, France, Italy, Malta, and OF COURSE Turkey, the organizers of the 'Urban Photo Album' project. We learned a lot about our perspective countries during International night and individual country presentations.




































These are some views of the 'Ulus'...the older part of Ankara, which is currently economically disadvantaged, and yet the people seem to be happy and unburdened.



Turkish ice cream is absolutely delicious and chewy...it looks like cotton candy on a stick. The ice cream man constantly mixes it and tosses it and turns it. It makes for quite a show! It also explains the high fitness level of ice cram people in Turkey. Then, they put it on a cone, but you have to grab it at just the right time. Otherwise, he turns it around and you lose it. ..watch that cone! The man in the red shirt is going to get an ice cream cone, I just know it!


Oops, we weren't supposed to take pictures...but everybody's taking picture. It's ok, it won't break the glass to take a picture!








This is a kid who is happy to have his picture taken...play on, happy kid :)