first visit from a friend

Moody came over to visit today. He found my neighbourhood sort of rough. He lives in an affluent neighbourhood about 2 blocks away.

Morning view on the way to work.

All nice apart from the sun in your face effect. Taken from the "tramvay" .

History of and around Mimisburg (Haci Kulhani Mimi) - Casanova in istanbul

A history note: Giovanni Giacomo de Seingalt known as Casanova, had passed a certain time in İstanbul around 1750’s. He was the guest of Earl of Bonneval, Comte de Bonneval,  known to us as Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa, whose house was at Kumbaracı Yokuşu in Beyoğlu. The street takes the name from its famous resident. There are interesting observations of this stay in the Memoirs of Casanova.

"...The wind continued in our favor, and we reached the Dardanelles in eight or ten days; the Turkish barges met us there to carry us to Constantinople.

The sight offered by that city at the distance of a league is truly wonderful; and I believe that a more magnificent panorama cannot be found in any part of the world. It was that splendid view which was the cause of the fall of the Roman, and of the rise of the Greek empire.

Constantine the Great, arriving at Byzantium by sea, was so much struck with the wonderful beauty of its position, that he exclaimed, "Here is the proper seat of the empire of the whole world!" and in order to secure the fulfillment of his prediction, he left Rome for Byzantium. If he had known the prophecy of Horace, or rather if he had believed in it, he would not have been guilty of such folly. The poet had said that the, downfall of the Roman empire would begin only when one of the successors of Augustus bethought him removing the capital of the empire to where it had originated…"

http://www.archive.org/stream/memoirsofcasanov02953gut/old/jcmcr11.txt

First post.

First post from the hood.