The times they are a-changin’.
This post seems to be older than 17 years—a long time on the internet. It might be outdated.
Istanbul, Turkey
25 June 2009
For our last day in Istanbul, Charlie and I split up.
While walking down to the pier the other day, I saw a sign for the Istanbul Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam. Knowing that much of our current math has its roots in Arabic (our numbering system is, after all, Arabic), I was rather curious to check this museum out.
The museum was relatively new and not quite completed yet; which was unfortunate, because several of the models were kinetic, but not plugged in.
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I think I was most impressed by the astroglobes, which were used to predict star locations, and water pumps, which I was interested in for their sheer ingenuity and for a project I’m working on that I’ll discus at a later date.
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I met back up with Charlie at the hostel for one last trip to the Grand Bizaar to get some more Turkish Delight and hopefully a carpet for me.
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With remarkable efficient, we entered the Bazaar, completed our missions, and were back at the hostel.
One snag Charlie ran in to was withdrawing money from the ATM. The aforementioned trip was expensive, 390YTL1 …which actually isn’t all that bad considereing what we were doing and the ground we were covering, and we still had to pay Ali. However, Charlie couldn’t get either of his ATM cards to work! Crap! After calling his bank and some bank and forth to the ATM, we eventually figured out that he has a maximum withdraw limit and was attempting to take out barely more than the limit.
Charlie rushed back, just in time to pay Ali and catch the bus.
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And just like that, we were on to Cappadocia.
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$250 USD ↩