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OK So I haven't posted a picture for a while so here we go for a picture from May when the weather was hot and sunny and the day was great and other than the fun of decorating nothing has happened.
I say that but I did complete the Great Cycle Manchester for the 26 miler which was fun I thought but if you look at the official pictures then it doesn't look like fun... however I was trying hard to keep up. At the end of the day I submitted a time of 1 hour and 22 minutes over 26 miles which I didn't think was bad.
Anyway the cage is an interesting thing. Apparently people lived there despite being on the top of a ridge, but what a place to live. We never got to the top of the cage because it's only open for a few days a year but still it's a bit impressive.
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It's history weekend this weekend, what with Denton's hisory with mining we had a history trip or walk as you might also know it to see if we would see any of the remains of the many pits in Denton. Of course with no real hope of finding anything it did starts as a walk and the lack of Top Pit which was supposed to be the biggest really did make us think that there was no chance of finding anything at all. In fact it was only when we found Hulme Pit that we realised that we might have seen Top Pit but we just didn't know what we were looking for. It all looked a bit modern... not that I have any idea what to expect. Of course we realised that we were near Hulme Pit when we saw a sign by the side of the Tame pointing us to Hulme Pit, which looked like it had a stand for a placard with explanation but the placard had since gone which was a pity.
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One of the surprising things to see on the way to the hotel on the first day was this bridge. A double deck bridge with traffic, trams and fishermen above and restaurants with pushy waiters touting for business some of whom remember your face fron yesterday when you said you might walk back, now less than 24 hours later one chap thought he could cash in in the half promise. He was disappointed as were the rest of them. Other than a rather uneventful 90 minute boat trip on the Bospherous a trip to the short but sweet spice bazaar was had and a taxi back to Taksim.
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We got there finally and it was open. Another tiring day of exploring the Palace which was not greatly impressive and all looked a little similar all except the museum where the prophet had left bits of himself for tourists to view. The rest of it contained grounds and buildings covered in gold with blue and whitqe mosaic and mother of pearl. Nice when you see one but the third didn't have as much effect.
Then it was off to the great Bazaar which was impressive but not what you would expect perhaps we were expecting Morocco, but then again if we wanted Morocco we should have gone. No spices just phone covers, gold, kebabs and carpets. I have a really good snap of a light seller but that was in portrait and what with the problems I'm having I can't include it, so a pic of the Topkapi Palace will have to do.
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After a rather abortive attempt to get to the Topkapi Palace. Well the attempg was successful it's just thag the palace is closed on a Tuesday, we headdd for the Aya Sofya. this is quite an impressive building, buit in around 530AD it took 1000 years for any of the local mosques in area to challenge it. For a time it usdd to be the largest enclosed space in the world and thd size of the dome was a huge technical achievement at the time. Now a tourist attraction this is the third church to be built in the site and kmpressive it is too with it's marble floors on the second level.
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