I didn't have internet access for nine days, believe it or not. It felt awesome.

I also didn't have access to the English-language Turkish Daily News, and didn't really feel like asking our friends to translate the news from the Turkish-language papers they were buying.

At times, I wondered if the world was still there, and I also wanted to know how things were going at Wimbledon.

Back home, it seems like everything is more or less the same...