Safranbolu is a small town in northern Turkey that has maintained traditional Ottoman building styles and society for the last four hundred years, give or take. By mid-December we found it largely deserted. The air was thick with smoke from wood-burning stoves and chimneys that heat the city through it snowy winter. The architecture reminded us of buildings in the old town section of Plovdiv, but also the mock-Tudor mansions of Beverly Hills:)
We saw a number of traditional craftsman at work, including a number of blacksmiths and this saddle maker.Happily for us, Safranbolu is also the native habitat of the safran flower and the original home of lokrum, or Turkish delight. The safran flavor was Aaron's favorite. I, predictably, went for chocolate covered pistachio.
xoxo Jessie
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