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Live from the City of Mosques
A preamble before I get started:
Up to this point in our trip our blog entries have been co-written by the two of us, with both of us experiencing our destinations for the first time. Turkey has been a bit different as Shane was here a few years ago and has been familiar with much of what the country has to offer. My senses on the other …
Backtracking almost 3000 km to the Blue Mosque
Before heading east towards China, we first had to go south for a quick one night pit stop in one of our favourite cities, Istanbul. After eating meat-and-potatoes-type cuisine for so long, our first order of business once on the ground in Istanbul was to gobble down a couple doner kebabs – we've had a massive craving for a good kebab ever …
Constantinople has history
... areas that includes the Taksim area with their flood of five star hotels, good restaurants, and night life.
Our group travel agent hired a van for a quickie tour of Istanbul for about four hours starting at 1:30PM and ending at about 5PM. Our van drove us from the ship to the Hippodrome and dropped us off for about one hour to do a quick tour of the ...
Retour à Kilyos
... entre un empereur et une impératrice...
Nous attrapons notre bateau, il faut faire sa place. Beaucoup de Stambouliotes venus à la journées pour le travail ou pour shopping rentrent fatigués,chargés et peu enclin à vous céder leur place . On les comprend. On est ravi de découvrir le Bosphore, sa rive Asiatique, sa rive Européenne. On croise énormément de cargos. On découvre d'autres palais, et les maisons des ...
Let's Talk Turkey
... literally no door nor curtain, just faith in you the guest to not spray water all over the floor. Let's see how that faith was rewarded...
So a good copious breakfast was followed by a bus ride over to the Hagia Sophia. Might as well start the day off right. I've been trying out ways to explain how impressive the Hagia Sophia is in my head, and let's try this anecdote on for size: the ruler of Moscow back in the day when Russia ...