friday was a walking day.... and walk and walk and walking day. slow morning start again, nice. same breakfast. interesting to see the same people at breakfast all the time, and never be able to talk to them, although they are cute boys and respond charmingly to smiles, inducing more all around.... see, happy cycle. our first stop was the hagia sofia finally, we gave up waiting for the sun. was impressive, beautiful mosaics just in the east entrance, then the main space huge. and quite destroyed by scaffolding unfortunately, at least as a flow of space, very unfortunate. we got to see the pantheon without scaffolding, guess this was our commupence... but the pantheon was restored to un-original austerity, and this was being put back to brilliant mosaics... not quite fair. hard to comprehend huge indoor spaces sometimes, stadiums are so large they're scaleless, and this was approaching that. so startling to see a large class of children pass and not fully inhabit the side aisle. so much color! and quite different schemes then the rest of the mosques, yellow with bright detailing. it wasn't properly a mosque, a museum with no exhibits and harsh entrance fee instead... you can do that with famous buildings. (sketch from sunday)
friday was a walking day.... and walk and walk and walking day. slow morning start again, nice. same breakfast. interesting to see the same people at breakfast all the time, and never be able to talk to them, although they are cute boys and respond charmingly to smiles, inducing more all around.... see, happy cycle. our first stop was the hagia sofia finally, we gave up waiting for the sun. was impressive, beautiful mosaics just in the east entrance, then the main space huge. and quite destroyed by scaffolding unfortunately, at least as a flow of space, very unfortunate. we got to see the pantheon without scaffolding, guess this was our commupence... but the pantheon was restored to un-original austerity, and this was being put back to brilliant mosaics... not quite fair. hard to comprehend huge indoor spaces sometimes, stadiums are so large they're scaleless, and this was approaching that. so startling to see a large class of children pass and not fully inhabit the side aisle. so much color! and quite different schemes then the rest of the mosques, yellow with bright detailing. it wasn't properly a mosque, a museum with no exhibits and harsh entrance fee instead... you can do that with famous buildings. (sketch from sunday) 
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