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Loving Istanbul
... swin around in a foot of water. They did have a costume dress up kiosk so Kerry Blaylock and myself dressed up in our harem gear and had a photo. A bit of fun!
Next we walked across to The Blue Mosque, so named because its tiles and embellishments are mostly blue and green colours on the walls and domes. Had to take our shoes off and put a scarf across our shoulders but we didn't have to cover our heads. It's large ...
"Life does not suck"
... it. The room is huge, and it just keeps going and going and going. The balcony is incredible. Our luggage was already delivered, and we quickly unpacked. We hung out on the balcony and watched the Costa ship behind us - nice to see it still floating. We then met Mel our cabin stewardess and Rupesh our Butler. Both are so nice!
At 6pm, there was a "block party" where wine and cheese was served in the hallways so that neighbors could meet ...
Rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for the... scrub???
... columns with classic stalactite capitals on both sides and facing the main boulevard. The woman's entrance is around the corner, hidden down the alley. Men still rule in Turkey.
There are five bath options, which are presented on a menu card, in Turkish, Spanish, German, French, Japanese and English. Your choices range from a self-service bath to the "Sultan's Special". I opted for the exfoliation besides who knew what i was ...
Petite leçon de turc
... 8217;) devient ‘ş’ (ch). Ils n’utilisent ni le ‘x’ ni le ‘w’ (sauf pour des mots étrangers). Il ont aussi un 'g' surmonté d'un croissant : ğ ; ils ne le prononcent pas.
Les voyelles ‘o’, ‘u’ peuvent prendre 2 points : ö, ü ; et ‘ı’ existe sans point et avec.
Ils ont integré des ...
Istanbul "Crackpot"
... the biggest kebab we have ever seen (there is no shortage of eating places in Istanbul), little roasting spatchcocks on the rotisserie, beautiful bakeries until we just had to stop (for coffee... and just a little taste of one of the local sweets - just got to try them).
Rich did a quick wifi check on the ipad - our constant companion - then we caught the metro up to the Istanbul Forum, a huge shopping centre... we did a quick look inside, Rich decided ...
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