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... travel card and keys to his place...now that's trust! Then as I was still with the other two guys having a coffee, he also offered them a place to stay before he headed off to work and leave us to do some sight seeing...
With 13.5 Million people living in Istanbul it's the largest city in Europe....even though half of the city is actually in Asia it's still quite a densely populated place. It was the Sacrifice Feast holiday in Turkey when we ...
Mosques, a Hamam and Cats!
... seats we had paid for! What an adventure - we all enjoyed sticking our heads out the train window to view the run-down villages in Romania, and showed our passports about half a dozen times at various train stops. We swapped buses and trains and were herded at the train station at the border to get our Turkey passport. I felt like we were back in Auschwitz - being sorted at the train stations by guards! We were on one side, and there looked like a building where ...
SOME ISTANBUL MODES OF TRANSPORTATION
... I was not unexpectedly the butt of most jokes. Had an Efes dark, a Turkish coffee [probably a low level sweetness level would have helped]and half a baklava 50TL. We stayed until half time in the GermanyPortugal game and called it a night, saying fond farewells to my regular drinking buddies on the trip.
Back to the room to download the pix, eschewing anything further. Hell, it was already approaching 2330, the leperchaun already sawing wood.
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Steamed, doused, pummeled and scrubbed.
... Cagaloglu this afternoon. It is a very traditional bath house with segregated areas for men and women. Once we selected our choices from the menu we were sent to strip off and put on a sarong. The bathing, steaming and massage all occurs in a segregated room but in a communal setting. The women's room was busy with many women in groups doing the self service option as well several being pampered by attendants with ...
A day at the 'mall'
... for me with no giant rips in their ******!
Tom orders a hookah: We spent a lovely and very relaxing evening strolling the streets of Istanbul eating street food and enjoying some of LP’s excellent recommendations. One awesome thing that strikes me about Istanbul is that locals and tourists seem to frequent the same places. Every time I have stood in an (albeit short) queue for street food or drinks I am waiting ‘at-elbow’ with locals. Even the ...
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