Viking Star Hotel Kemer

the alternate title is 'turkısh delıght'. so. first day day out ın sultanahmet. dıd half of it. lots of people. amazıng smells (in the good way, although lots of ones in the bad way too). but what can i say about the bazaars? you have to see it - shops selling mannequiıns, automatic rifles (separate shops in case you were worried), a mini-photocopier on wheels, and stall after stall of the same junk. the turks are so friendly too! everyone wanted to be ...

... NOT prepared for.  For those of you who forgot 7th grade science 0 C is freezing temp so it was pretty cold.  A few hours later we arrived at our hotel and they took us on a walking tour right away. Not the best idea cause we were all exhausted, but i guess if they let us go to our rooms we would have never came back.  Istanbul is really cool.  I wouldn't say beautiful cause its pretty dirty, but the Mosques they have are some ...

... luggage and pointed to another part of the airport that had no sidewalk too it, just a busy street full of cars and told me that was for domestic departures. How the heck was I going to lug my bags across a busy road without getting hit? Pedestrians do not get the right of way in Turkey! I asked some airport police how to get to the Domestic Departures and they pointed to the terminal and also ...

... ago, by people who were reporting miracles like when they dropped a bucket down through a hole in their basement it came up filled with water, or fish! It is a caverous space made up of recycled Roman and Greek Pillars from various, mismatched temples and buildings, and carp swim in the water amongst the pillars. It is all lit up down there now giving it a ghostly ambience. Later that day we decided to go over to ther Bergolu district, but after a tram and a long walk around ...

... were no major mishaps. I arrived about 20 minutes early so I decided to read some of the book I brought with me. Now I have to take a minute and explain that in Istanbul there are armed guards everywhere. They have some kind of machine gun and they seem to just hang out and watch people. It is at the same time comforting and terrifying. The police station is the largest on the western side of Istanbul, and in light of recent terrorist ...

... entire week. And it was wonderful. The furthest we ventured was to the beach, 1km down a little track through a forest littered with ancient ruins. The water was incredible, freezing on the surface thanks to the run off from a mountain stream but warm as bathwater underneath. On July 23 we dragged ourselves away from the comfort of the cushions and the lure of lager, and headed to Demre (apparently the birthplace of St Nicholas ...

... make them water proof.. The cistern has the capacity to store tons of water. Many homes can still access these waterways through the basements of their homes. I remember seeing a National Geographic program about this not long ago. Water drips from the high vaulted ceiling, fish swim in the water. It was lovely and cool away from the heat above. At the end of a long row of columns there are two which have Medusa's head at the base ...

... when 20m down the road I was accosted again by another shop owner who said he wanted to get to know me and play backgammon and later go for dinner and maybe go back to my hotel after for a nightcap.... WTF! I soon escaped and made my way to Aya Sofia... Its a huge church that was built in 537 by an Emperor, later being converted into a mosque in the late 1400's and then declared a museum in the 1900's by Turkey's ...

... the hıstorıc sıte have large park settıngs and we have enjoyed sıttıng back watchıng people most of whom are tourısts as thıs cıty ıs full of them. Many are comıng off cruıse boats for the day and many are on fly ın packages from varıous parts of Europe. Somethıng that has caught our eye ıs the fact that very few people are fat both here and ın England. Perhaps fat ıs a north Amerıcan fad. People are also very fashıonable and tend to ...

... grace me with his presence. After some back cracking he basically massaged me, dumped a combination of hot and cold buckets of water on me, and gruffly pushed me into the next room. This came to 40 euros each (about 65 dollars... plus tip) but we wanted to have a go. basically we spend the day sleeping and eating in preperation of our 3am flight back to Frankfurt, then on to berlin. M: Yes the Turkish bath was a bit ...