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Buy a digital subscription Go to the Digital EditionAzize Ethem recalls the fulfilment of a teenage dream– a longing to visit the ruineddesert city of Palmyra. Back home in Iznik, the lake plays host to its summer visitors: egrets and herons,kingfishers and ibis. Now it is time to make ready for the rigours of winter
During my winter stay in London my daughter, Sara,took me to a presentation by Prof. Bob Ousterhout of the photographs taken by John Henry Haynes in Palmyra in 1885. Sara guides me with much patience through tube stations and the intricacies of travelling through the city. Without her help I would have been a bundle of nerves when, and if,I’d arrived at the desired destination.The ruins of the city of Palmyra had been on my wish list since I was 14, when, visiting a friend for the weekend, we were given permission by her father to read any of thebooks in his library apart from those on thetop shelf. We managed in those two days toread two top-shelf books:The Scourge of the Swastika by Lord Russell of Liverpool, and The Wilder Shores of Love by Lesley Blanch.
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