Dispatches from Jane

Turkish Delight

Posted by Jane on 01/14 at 07:35 PM

Jane is: Currently heli-skiing in Erzurum, Turkey with her ladies literary society.


She’s relaxing by: Drinking potent black tea and resting her feet on an actual Ottoman.


She’s absorbing: A lecture on the Turkish poets’ proclivity for the quatrain and not the couplet. 


She’s confused: Because the Turkish poets’ motto is a couplet: Couplets are so yesterday / The quatrain’s now the only way


At her feet is: Her beloved alpine goat, Devo       

She’s anticipating: The deep-powder caches she’ll be skiing before lunchtime.

Ciao ladies! I’m near Istanbul (not Constantinople) doing some fantastic cross training. Yesterday was incredible from go to whoa!

This morning’s lecture is a bit dry, but the Turkish Delight is magnificent and Varnik, whom I met yesterday, has taught me to say “Afiyet Olsun”, which means “Good Apetite”. 

Devo is positively living on Yesil Zeytin Salatasi (green olive salad), and I’m wondering how to export it in bulk. Stay in touch and remember:  “It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.” – Jane Austen 


Yours til the kitchen sinks,
jane  

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