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	<title>Rumeli Observer &#187; Bosporus</title>
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	<description>I live in Rumeli Hisari. It is from here, the very edge of the European landmass, that I observe the world. Some of these observations I will share on this blog  as a  Open Society Fellow.</description>
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		<title>High Fidelity and my end of year list of favourites</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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My favourite view in 2008 is from my desk: the Bosporus, early December morning 2008
In High Fidelity, Nick Hornby&#8217;s novel about &#8220;young middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them, making too much noise in restaurants and clubs and wine bars&#8221;, the main hero has many problems, including often losing the plot, &#8220;the subplot, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Turkish weekend</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 10 days of travel and research in Bulgaria and Brussels the plane from Sofia arrives back in Istanbul early on Saturday morning.
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