Balat Istanbul

... Ça ajoute quelque chose au charme de la visite. L'après-midi on part flâner dans un quartier assez éloigné du vieil Istanbul : Balat près des fameux remparts. Dans le métro je demande à quelqu'un de m'aider pour m'orienter. Après ...

... if Müzekart is available to foreign tourists.  It is about 20 TL and gives access to museums and monuments across Turkey More: Four days in Istanbul!  We have looked forward to this for years.  After 24.5 hours to get here, we arrived at ...

... allowed in, we went back out into the sunshine and walked along the Golden Horn, looking for some lunch. Being a vegetarian in Istanbul isn't terribly difficult, but we do have to be picky -- lots of restaurant menus are packed with meat and don't offer ...

... Carolina for some time, running a philly steak restaurant!  Ah, the fascinating contradictions of life in Turkey! The highlight of our second week in Istanbul was our day discovering the areas of Fener, Balat and Eyüp and the Chora Church.  ...

... up at 10.30am accompanied by another client, Ching from Singapore – she had been attending a mental health conference in Istanbul as she worked with children who were intellectually disabled. He took us by taxi to the old Greek quarter of Istanbul ...

... and I took a cab from the University and was there. Balat is on the sea and was the original Jewish section of Istanbul. The door was closed, I knocked, a small window opened and I handed my passport to the man. These precautions are because there were ...