Travel Bug Dog Tag Not Constantinople

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Owner:
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Released:
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Origin:
Türkiye
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of boersmaatjes.

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Current Goal

To spread good luck from cache to cache.

About This Item

This Travel Bug is a Turkish "nazar-boncuk" (pronounced "bonjuk"), or "Evil-Eye amulet," which is supposed to ward off the dangerous effects of the Evil Eye. I got it as a souvenir in Istanbul, where it accompanied me on my successful effort to be First-To-Find for the new cache "Lover's Lane" in Gulhane Park outside Topkapi Palace.

The name comes from the lyrics of a 1950s novelty song: "You can't go back to Constantinople, 'cause it's Istanbul, not Constantinople!"

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    Tracking History (73360.7mi) View Map

    Visited 1/9/2023 Maasmuren took it to Katoomba Kingsford Smith New South Wales, Australia - 51.16 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 1/9/2023 Maasmuren took it to Katoomba CBD 2D New South Wales, Australia - 51.29 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 1/8/2023 Maasmuren took it to Nothing To It New South Wales, Australia - 1.62 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 1/5/2023 Maasmuren took it to At The Governor's Pleasure New South Wales, Australia - 1.09 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 1/4/2023 Maasmuren retrieved it from TFTC Sydney - Harbour Pilots New South Wales, Australia   Visit Log

    We will take this TB to the Netherlands.

    The blue eye is not attached anymore.
    We found only the tag
    Discovered It 1/3/2023 cettlac discovered it New South Wales, Australia   Visit Log

    Found in Sydney but didn’t take it with me as not really going anywhere special to spread it elsewhere
    Dropped Off 12/30/2022 Ribeana placed it in TFTC Sydney - Harbour Pilots New South Wales, Australia - 1,383.9 miles  Visit Log

    Picked this guy up in Wellington, New Zealand! Brought him over to AUS with me! Hope someone can help him travel on!

    Retrieve It from a Cache 11/18/2022 Ribeana retrieved it from Wellington 720 North Island, New Zealand   Visit Log

    First trackable I’ve found! I’m stoked!

    Discovered It 11/16/2022 GeoGrillen discovered it North Island, New Zealand   Visit Log

    Heute entdeckt auf dem Mt. Victoria in Wellington
    Discovered It 10/31/2022 kivilaak discovered it North Island, New Zealand   Visit Log

    Seen at Mt Victoria
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