Grant arrives, we explore the citadel

With our third mentor, Grant, in from a stint at the AP in Jerusalem, our team is now complete. That, combined with our impending move to a new house in Ankawa, things are starting to shape up with The Tiziano Project.



Then we headed up the hill for our first look at the citadel, an 8,000-year-old structure that is the longest inhabited citadel in the world. In recent years, the citadel was overrun by squatters, many of whom were kurds hiding from Saddam Hussein. So when UNESCO declared the citadel a world heritage site, they moved out the squatters to avoid further damaging the building structures.

We're working on a great story about the citadel, but for right now, I wanted to give you a feel for Erbil and what things look like from up there with a few pictures. Don't judge on the quality, just a few snaps with my point-and-shoot as we poked around:



Tomorrow we move into our new digs. It'll be the first time I'll be settled for more than a few weeks in something besides a hostel. Yay!