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Saying good-bye to Turkey, I headed for Mongolia and the next leg of my trip. I had signed up to volunteer with an Earthwatch conversation expedition on the Mongolian Steppes and was meeting the team in Ulaanbaatar but i had planned to arrive a few days early to explore the city before the team rendezvous. The flight to Ulaanbaatar from Istanbul was a red-eye so it was 7am or so when we… Read More
As I mentioned a couple of posts ago when we visited the Molino market there was a whole section devoted to food and produce. Since Ricardo, our Spanish teacher, was along I took advantage of his local knowledge and was quizzing him about some of the odds and ends that I saw in the stalls but did not recognize. One of the biggest mysteries to me was a grey flat item… Read More
Thursday in Spanish class we had a field trip. Ricardo, our Spanish teacher, offered to take Elizabeth and I (the only two in the class) on an excursion to the local market, Molino. Elizabeth and I thought it would be great to go and see it so we agreed with Ricardo’s proposal. To the tourists and visitors Molino is known as the black market because it is possible to buy, amongst other… Read More
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