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[IstanbulWhiteboy]

Hey everyone! I've been working on a website to give some information about Bahçeşehir in case anyone is interested. As of right now it's still a work in progress, but I hope to have more information and LOTS of pictures up in the next few weeks. I'll update you as I go along. You can check it out HERE.

[Abi]

Just had a look and it looks like it's really going to be fab when you have finished. The only thing I will say, and hope you don't mind, is the picture on your front page make the place look a bit dismal as the sky is very grey and overcast. Have you got one where there is a nice blue sky?,

[IstanbulWhiteboy]

I was actually thinking of that myself... I was going to take one today, but as it turned out, the sky didn't look much different. It'll happen! I'm going to the rooftop tomorrow to see what kind of shots I can get, and hopefully the sky will be clear enough to get some good stuff.

[Aston]

What a great idea. Will there be a blog on the site?

[Vic801]

Great idea! Looking forward to following its progress.

[IstanbulWhiteboy]

What a great idea. Will there be a blog on the site?

I wasn't planning to, but who knows. I'm mainly doing this as an informational site for people living in The Bubble or looking for a home near the 'bul without being in the city. This whole thing started a few weeks ago, Ken asked me to get together some pictures of the area, then last week one of the English teachers I'll be working with (she just moved here) mentioned that she wished there was a map of Bahçeşehir. I had thought of putting together a simple map of B-şehir, but once I started working on it I realized there's a helluva lot more here that people (prospective and new residents, mainly) should know about than I realized -- too much info to cover to do it with just a map -- and this way I'd be killing two birds with one stone. I've used Weebly before to advertise my services doing private English lessons, and realized that would be the best way to go. It's gotten much bigger than I had originally planned, and there's still a long way to go. On that note, still couldn't replace the cover picture, it's another cloudy day! It'll get done, though, as soon as the sky clears.

[IstanbulWhiteboy]

New cover pic up; still a bit cloudy but a better view and I doctored it a little to brighten it up... not the final work, but getting closer

[Abi]

Wow well done, good job

[IstanbulWhiteboy]

So I spent 4 hours today walking around the Bubble taking pictures of the "downtown" area, the "phase 1" area and the "Gölet" and am currently in the process of uploading them as I write this... unfortunately the web builder is a little slow in picture uploading, and I took over 100 pics, some of which need to be cropped or otherwise edited, so while I'm going to try to get as many up tonight (this morning, as it is now midnight), it may be late tomorrow that they're up. Either way, they're going up in the next 24 hours, so take a look if yr innerested

[IstanbulWhiteboy]

...New pages are up!

[Vic801]

It is looking great!! Well done!!

I loved the comment "Something happens to these normally docile people when they get behind the wheel, and "drive carefully" does not seem to be within their vocabulary".

We took a taxi on Sunday to go to Uçhisar to see a friend who is not well and the cheery taxi driver started off by overtaking 3 cars in a blind bend while answering his mobile phone. Mr P was understandably nervous about this (especially since he was in the passenger seat known in French as "la place du mort" - the dead man's seat, due to the number of deaths of passengers whilst drivers get out without a scratch). Anyway, Mr P says "dikkat, dikkat, abi" to the taxi driver who cheerfully turns round to him and reassures him - this is Bayram and you don't get fined on the first day of Bayram. Well, that definitely reassured Mr P!!!

[IstanbulWhiteboy]

I've lost count of the number of times I've been in a taksi and the driver is juggling two (one time it was three!) cell phones and a cigarette while shifting, racing through taffic, and steering with his knees

[Abi]

Very impressed, keep up the good work