Ahmet Efendi Evi
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Mosques, Apple Tea, and Baklava! (Mom, don't read)
... for a decent enough price. Worth it? Wait until you try this tea. Haha.
We met up with Marty for dinner and went across the bridge. We ended up eating pretty late and we were all dead by the time we got back to the hostel. We had an early morning and got back to Bulgaria in the afternoon. Turkey was definitely an interesting and beautiful place! I needed way more than a weekend to explore everything in Istanbul, let alone Turkey..which means I'll be back! ...
Özbekistan
... a good friend of mine who had just flown in from the US. The regime requires foreigners to stay in a hotel each night and to collect registration slips to prove this when they exit the country. So, we spent each night in a hotel for our weeks in the country.
Özbekistan is almost as cheap as Kyrgyzstan, so this would not normally be a problem, except for the problem of Özbek currency. The highest note, 1000 söms, is only worth about 30 ...
Istanbul - positiivne üllatus!
... Kuna omanik tundis Ahmedi, siis toodi meile lisaks tasuta üks taldrikutäis, kuid me lihtsalt ei jõudnud rohkem süüa. Pole probleemi, baklavad pakiti kenasti hommikusöögiks kaasa!
Restoranides on mingi imeline komme tasuta toitu anda. Ühes kohvikus, kus võtsime lihtsalt pearoo, toodi meile eelroaks üks hiiglama suur leib koos kastmega. Maitses nagu capsicum, mida India restoranides tihti eelroaks pakutakse. Kui olime söömise lõpetanud, siis uuriti kas tahame ...
The Markets
... proof vest! We eventually thought better of it but now I'm a bit sorry that we didn't get something. Next door what a shop with guns - mostly sporting type guns (well that's what we saw from the outside), and even sold clay pigeons for target practice.
After our initial explore we drew up our list of what we were going to buy, drew out the money and went to make our purchases. Unfortunately things didn't quite turn out right - ...
Ottomans and All the Men, Part II
... that the majority of people who live here are Muslim. Istanbul is a mixture of East and West, a sprinkling of the Ottomans from the East and the Romans from the West. Emperor Constantine, when he Christianized Rome in AD-something-early, also Christianized what is now Istanbul because this land of riches and prosperity was part of Rome. Constantinople. The Hagia Sofia wasn’t always a mosque. It started as the grandest of all Christian churches, the “Great Church ...