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An Outing to the Black Sea

Scroll panorama using the scrollbar. I didn't have time to write a fancy click and drag scroller.
And I also haven't figured out how make good panoramas on my Linux machine. I miss Panorama Factory.
The Black Sea, along with the Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea, have always been on the fringe of my geographic knowledge. I knew they were over in Asia somewhere, and that some of them were big. But their exact locations and specifics of their size, which countries border them, etc. have always eluded me. Hopefully now that will change.

The other day, I took an outing to the Black Sea. Staying in Safranbolu in North Central Turkey, it was just a 1.5 hour drive (along a windy road) to the little seaside village of Amasra. Being low tourist season, we pretty much had the town to ourselves. A civil worker(?) who had the day off even offered to show us around (although I think he had an ulterior motive because he learned I was from Seattle and he has an ex-girlfriend from Seattle and he wanted me to pass along a message to her*).

We ended up exploring the village on our own, hiking up to the hillside (which was covered in ), strolling the beach, and getting our feet wet (if it wasn't so cold (both the water and the air temp), I might have jumped in, just to say I've been swimming in the Black Sea).

The verdict on the trip was that, while it was quite nice, it might not have been worth the $16 and 3 hours crammed in the back of a mini-bus, but it wasn't the worst way to spend a day. And now I can say I've been to the Black Sea...and even that I know where it is!

Thursday March 31 2011

File under: travel, Turkey

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on Fri 01st Apr, 2011 08:05 am PDT Saxtor said:
This may be a worthwhile Linux panorama app...
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on Fri 01st Apr, 2011 03:11 pm PDT soreyes said:
run panorama factory in wine. Wine is available within the Ubuntu software center utility. Setting up a windows app within wine is surprisingly easy. This forum indicates it should work: http://www.panoramafactory.com/discus/messages/342/342.html
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on Mon 04th Apr, 2011 02:02 pm PDT Amiel Martin said:
What a great picture!
Looks great, I'm jealous.
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