Ortahisar home with Buddy

Here's more of my home in Turkey, with my fine little dog for scale.


This first room was a stable. After digging out 4 feet of antique donkey dung (highly prized by the local gardeners) we laid inexpensive, broken stones as the floor and scraped the walls clean. For awhile it was going to be a theater (we put up lights and had one performance by the local children with their parents as audience). Then we used it for a wonderful party, the most amazing dancing. If I can figure out how to get the videos here, I'll show you odd, funny, amazing dancing, by the men! (The women were way too reserved).

Now it's the museum, laid out like a home, with lovely old pieces from the past on small rugs or near seating platforms. I'll find those photos, too.




Much cosier is the entrance to my little house. It was once dirty, cold cement, and I didn't have the time or money to put in wood floors (wood is very expensive in Cappadocia because it's mostly high plateau and dry, almost treeless) so I put in tiles. Not authentic, but neat and nice.