The Camel Barn Library

Thursday, December 27, 2012

'Keeping the home fires burning...'

Today's post on http://chemonights.blogspot.co.uk/

N.b - this post on my new blog, Chemo Nights, has some photos which may be of interest to people who were rightly cross that I never got round to posting any photos of the camel barn, once restored, on this blog - there are several photos of the interior after restoration.

Sorry it took me so long

Caroline x

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This blog is essentially a love letter: to my adopted home of Turkey in general, and its north Aegean coast and the town of Ayvalık in particular; to the Ottoman Greeks and all the other civilisations that previously inhabited the western shores of Asia Minor; and, perhaps most importantly, to libraries.

I came here to restore an Ottoman Greek house, and make a library in its camel barn, because I fell in love with the town of Ayvalık, its stunning location, beautiful architecture and strange, sad history, and because I have wanted to have my own library - a proper library - since I was a very small child. We all have our obsessions: mine is with libraries. So, this blog is the story of the Camel Barn Library, and of Ayvalık, the beautiful and extraordinary place in which it is situated.