Friday morning, I woke early and headed out of our hotel before breakfast. Our hotel (Akçe) was also an Ottoman style house with a beautiful well-groomed garden.
Akce Hotel Safranbolu
Heading down the cobbled streets, I headed to the town square by the public baths. I waited until a early morning visitor entered the scene and made this image.
View Cobbled Street To Public Baths
I had passed by these circular benches earlier. Returning later, a white cat had climbed onto the bench and provided me an opportunity for a more interesting composition below.
White Cat On Circle Bench At Sunrise
Heading back to the hotel for breakfast, several men had gathered on a bench in the town square, chatting and watching pigeons in this image.
Sitting By The Pigeons, Safranbolu
After breakfast, Angela and I headed back, doing some shopping. At the mosque, close to the public baths, I made this image of the roof domes. Each of the domes has an ornament (I am not sure of the name) that appears to be the shape of a crescent moon.
Mosque Roof Domes, Safranbolu
This mosque had a minaret at one of the corners of the main building. Positioning myself below the minaret, I made this image looking directly up at the minaret.
Mosque Minaret, Safranbolu
At the rear or the public baths, washing lines were loaded with towels to dry. Perhaps they had been washed and put out to dry?
Loaded Washing Lines, Public Baths
An archway leads to the front entrance to the baths. I had noticed the two men, sitting on the left in this image, engrossed in their smartphones. Both men had been sitting there for over a half hour without moving!
Entrance To Public Baths, Safranbolu
At one of the cobbled street corners close to the baths, over a dozen cats had congregated, waiting for food. I found one cat under a bench, gazing out at the action in the street.
Cat Under Bench, Safranbolu
We stopped at the saffron store, where Angela bought some saffron. I made this image of the store owner waiting in the doorwar for the next customer. This storefront was adorned with several posters and signs extolling the virtues of saffron and advertising other goods for sale.
Safron Vendor, Safranbolu
We passed a perfume store, where bottles of perfume were lined up along the window ledge. As soon as I saw the donkey, I could not help but make this image.
Perfume Bottles And Donkey In Window, Safranbolu
Various stores were selling fabric goods. Stopping at one of theses stores, I made this image of a pile of colorful fabrics.
Colorful Fabrics, Safranbolu
Another store had glassware, that I captured here.
Glassware In Window, Safranbolu
Many of the cities and towns that we visited in Turkey, had stores selling lamps and lampshades. I found one store that had glass lanterns hanging in the front. The purple glass had a really striking color that is captured in this image.
Purple Glassware
Soon afterwards, we headed back to the hotel to join the rest of the tour group, to return on the final leg of the journey back to Istanbul.