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Subject: [OM] Re: Solar eclipse photo advice
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 22:22:35 +0100
Excellent Piers!

Yes, I was the deputy commander of the Coalition Air Ops Centre of Op  
Northern Watch for 4 months.  But during March while the Feast of  
Sacrifice was on, the Turks (military) did not want to have to  
monitor our activities so they forbade us from flying for a week.

We worked for 13 days on the trot to make up for it, had a stonking  
party on the 13th night and set off, with a hangover for the frozen  
wastes of the Anatolian Plain and Capadocia the next morning!

It was a fascinating trip, with the blood of many sacrifices running  
down many of the roads we travelled.  We visited loads of the  
troglodyte places, including Kale Uchisar, near Nevşehir.

I should really like to return there, with my wife, so see the places  
and visit the (very friendly) people again.

Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.co.uk
homepage.mac.com/zuiko


On 6 Apr 2006, at 23:11, Piers Hemy wrote:

> Cappadocia it was, indeed.  Just north of Nevşehir - I'll send you  
> a Google
> placemarker.
>
> While we were there we passed a Turkist F-16 base close to Ankara -  
> were you
> not posted to Incirlik at some stage?
>

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