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A Week Spent Mostly In Bed

My Week in Photos — Week 45— January 19–25, 2023

One of the incredible Fethiye Tombs watches over the city from the high cliff above. Photo Credit: Author

There is a saying in life, ‘when it rains, it pours.’ This week has certainly been a good example of that. On the one hand, I hate how this week has turned out, on the other hand, it has been a blessing to be where we are when this all unfolded.

Let me fill you in.

On Thursday we made a point of meeting our friend Lani for one last visit before we left Antalya. Lani is a young Russian girl that has never traveled before. She initially came to Antalya to meet up with a guy that she met online, but she loved it so much that she didn’t want to leave. She is not a fan of what Putin is doing, and she realized that she really didn’t want to go back to Russia. So she has been hiding out between Antalya and Kazakhstan, where she goes to renew her visa.

She is also a fellow digital artist, so we had much in common.

Picnic at sunset. There are always cats nearby! Photo Credit: Author

Currently, she is applying to volunteer in aid organizations in Europe with the hope that she…