Cistern Cafe mopping 20110427_85 Gate 1 20110427_88 The Grand Bazaar, Istanbul twang! glorious tat Kemal rug shop lights more lights shoppers' paradise outside the Grand Bazaar 20110427_98 20110427_99 20110427_100 20110427_101 20110427_102 Badly framed photo double flying buttress 20110428_03 The Cappadocian Fathers The Anastasis: Christ dragging Adam and Eve out of… the ravages of time (900 years) Christ in judgement 20110428_11 odd arm Christ Pantocrator surrounded by 24 ancestors spotty man gold mosaic central roundel The Virgin and Child, surrounded by angels Reclining Medusa head 20110427_78 20110427_77 Ottoman-style wooden house Serpentine column, 479 BC Balcony Egyptian obelisk Young Prince intricate Pillar soaring over-fished? solitude exquisite stencilling glory blue blue windows behind the star half-dome window muslim man lifts the spirits Blue Mosque marble columns with ornately pierced capitals Bronze door Portal of the Emperor the Sultan's loge the Sultan's loge Byzantine brickwork looking towards the apse a layer of lights Constantine and Zoë John and Irene where the pigeons roost