I took a walk near Taksim Square. It is April and already a lot of people around. I’ll have to get up early if I am to get any clean shots of, for example, the Tower of Constantine.

Just a word on the cats; they seem to be in very good health, in the main. The ones in the actual centre, like these ones on a main shopping street leading to Taksim Square, seemed very healthy. The ones in my working class neighbourhood seem a bit more ragged. Over here, life is more of a struggle.

I have to go. Just outside my flat is a street meeting of the Turkish Communist Party. I seem to have landed in quite a radical neighbourhood.