Tag: istanbul
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It wasn't until I made time for myself to get out into the countryside near my home and take the dog for a walk that I realised how much stress I'd been putting myself under during my team meetup, this week.
Istanbul was enjoyable and fascinating, and I love my team, but I always forget until after the fact how much a few days worth of city crowds can make me feel anxious and trapped.
It's good to get a mile or two from the nearest other human and decompress!
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Dan, a red leash hung across his shoulders, gives a half-shrug as he smiles for a selfie on a grassy trail between a hedgerow and a field. Behind him, near a weathered old-fashioned footpath sign, his French Bulldog looks at him expectantly.
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Delivery Songs
In the UK, ice cream vans are perhaps the only delivery service with their own jingle. Turkey and India are WAY ahead of us in this regard, and I've got a few ideas about how we fix that...
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Found GC7B9C6 Heykel&Boฤaz/Sculpture & Bosphorus- Virtual Reward
As others have observed, this is a bit challenging right now owing to the hoardings that have been erected in the way. But like others, I found a gap in the fence through which I was able to photograph the sculpture. TFTC!
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Found GC6JQAX Rainbow Stairs
Whether or not this piece of art is or was an act of political defiance, it might need to be one once again. Brought my own rainbow so I could be part of it, too. ๐โ
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Found GC7B79C Kฤฑz Kulesi/Maiden's Tower- Virtual Reward
This checkin to GC7B79C Kฤฑz Kulesi/Maiden's Tower- Virtual Reward reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Went over on the ferry. Using my phone as my GPSr and also my camera, so snapped a thumbs up, and my name, and my face, all with the tower visible. Looks like it's going โฆ
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Found GCAJHQ1 The Fountain of Sultan Ahmed III
Two virtual caches in such close proximity! And what a beautiful fountain. As requested, photo shows the fountain and my username, but also me! Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK, and TFTC!
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Found GCAJG5P The Two Mosques Virtual Reward 4.0
Here with worth colleagues on our "day off" from meetings and code hackathons, we're planning to visit the mosque I chose to photograph behind me. TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK.
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Found GC6VTEG Galata Bridge #3
After lunch with my work team in a delightful restaurant overlooking the bridge I decided to take a diversion on the route back to our coworking space to come and find this geocache, my most-Easterly yet.
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Thanks to finding a couple of geocaches here in Istanbul, my geocaching "2D convex hull" (the smallest possible convex polygon that covers an area), which I wrote some code to draw last year, just expanded a little further to the East. ๐
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World map, with an irregular near-quadrilatral drawn such that it approximately connects Inverness (Scotland), Istanbul (Turkey), Cape Town (South Africa), and San Francisco (California, USA), encompassing the area within.
I've got a lot of the world left still to encircle, but I'm slowly extending my reach...
(previous map, for comparison: https://danq.me/_q23u/2024/04/dans-geoing-hull-2024-04-03.webp)
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Found GC892N8 Galata Tower
My second visit of the day to the tower, has I didn't have a working pen with me on the first. Decided to go all-in on using my working pen by drawing myself holding a sign, showing myself holding a sign, showing myself holding a sign... you get the idea.
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Found GC67ZH1 Karakoy Tunel
QEF after a meeting in a nearby coworking space with some work colleagues from around the globe. A little stealth was required: given what's going on in the city right now, I definitely didn't want to look suspicious to one of the nearby cops! Soon retrieved, signed, and returned the cache. TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK!
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With visa complications and travel challenges, this is the very first time that my team - whom I've been working with for the last year - have ever all been in the same country, all at the same time.
You can do a lot in a distributed work environment. But sometimes you just have to come together... in celebration of your achievements, in anticipation of what you'll do next, and in aid of doing those kinds of work that really benefit from a close, communal, same-timezone environment.
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A group of men sit on chairs, a sofa, and the edge of a desk in a comfortable large office space.
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Hanging with my team at our meetup in Istanbul, this lunchtime I needed to do some accessibility testing...
(with apologies to anybody who doesn't know that in user interface design, a "kebab menu" is one of those menu icons with a vertical line of three dots: a vertical ellipsis)
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Found GCB3FAQ The Grand Bazaar fossils
This checkin to GCB3FAQ The Grand Bazaar fossils reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I'm visiting Istanbul to meet with colleagues, but we took some time off from our meetings and work this afternoon to come and get lost in the Grand Bazaar. While browsing the amazing diversity of stalls โฆ
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Istanbul is... sprawling. I stood on this footbridge, over the water, to try to comprehend the scale of the place, but it's just massive. The hills, which help the tall buildings to tower over you no matter where you stand, only serve to exaggerate the effect. Quite the spectacle of human settlement.
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View from above a river, flanked by dense city on both sides, under an overcast sky.
