December 2011 - Bursa

December 2011 - Bursa, a photo by CharlesFred on Flickr.

And so we race through to December, the end of yet another year, finishing off with a return week in Turkey and the last day here at home in Amsterdam. We copied our Christmas of 2007 by going to Istanbul and Bursa for the Christmas week and we had almost exactly the same weather - cold sunshine (as opposed to cold rain here in Amsterdam). Here is one of the many coloured houses in old Bursa, reminding us a little of the Clennam house in Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit which we finished off (on DVD) whne we came home yesterday evening.