Tag Archives: Istanbul

Constantinople and its Double

Posted on January 26, 2013 by W N Herbert

‘Couldn’t we have,’ Richard asked, ‘a map of Istanbul with Byzantium as a layer on top?’ I imagined a booklet of transparent pages, each setting out a different period of the City’s history, with perhaps a detached opaque sheet, so … Continue reading →

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Büyükada v. bustle

Posted on January 22, 2013 by W N Herbert

Greetings from Büyükada, the largest of the Prinkipoi, or Princes’ Islands, in the Sea of Marmara, where we sit nibbling Armenian biscuits in the white timber-fronted family home of our pal Pelin, while she translates the poems of Zöe. We … Continue reading →

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Flying Economy to Byzantium

Posted on January 20, 2013 by W N Herbert

As we sit, puzzling over how our shoelaces get tied, I’m awaiting the departure of a snow-delayed flight to Heathrow. From thence (after what will now be a mad dash between terminals including retrieving my own luggage and checking in) … Continue reading →

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The Loser’s Club Is A Real Place And We Didn’t Even Get There

Posted on September 29, 2012 by W N Herbert

Delighted to post this image retrieved from Istanbul by Nia Davies, which seems a fitting way of recording the almost complete moribundity into which we, the Collected Losers, Losels and Loseurs of Adishakti, have fallen. Though, to be fair, it … Continue reading →

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