The only time I get into a cistern, is when that little orange ball floats off the metal bar, and the flush water won't stop running. So now the hustlers around the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul want to charge me for it - what - 50 bucks to check out the bog??? Hmm - cultural slothhead...decide maybe it'll be fun, also he said theres a sea nympho down there...cheap at the price! What I found out - the Basilica Cistern was built in 532 - feels like a number missing there - but then you realise how sussed they were back then. The Palace needed water, so they channeled it from the Belgrade forest 20 kms away - one thousand five hundred years ago! And thats the hottest of the 3 sea nymphs,Medusa, on her head at the bottom of one of the 300 columns that holds it up - apparently she got adventurous with Poseidon at Athenas place and got her head taken off. That'll teach her for getting busted...upside down in a cistern for a few millenia...
I put their orange ball back on, so its working again.
Deon
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