And Hotel Istanbul

... on Jakarta's roads at the same time would mean gridlock of apocalyptic proportion.

It nearly reaches this at times. The rain pours buckets. The Dutch built canals, not drainage. The roads are the drains. The roads flood. Cars stop, thousands of motorbikes jam themselves under any bridge they can find. Traffic stops. Jams. Horns and anger.

One-way roads for miles can easily mean driving 5km to access the building across the highway.

The highway to the airport is built at ...

... a tour in Cappadocia, Happy Valley Tours is the ticket…) We eat breakfast in a hostel café waiting for the place to open and then store our luggage, buy a short afternoon tour package of the Ottoman sultans’ palace. We then walk up to the Hagia Sophia and go inside. Wow…simply wow. The place dwarfs everything in the vicinity, the sheer size of the dome and the columns make St. Peters in Rome seem tame (though I know St. Peters is actually ...

... us out. It had been about a month since we had been kicked out of the hotel room in France, so personally I figured we were due. Tracy was more upset and made a point of saying so. To slightly alter an old expression, "Hell hath no fury as a woman burned".... needless to say, within minutes, arrangements were made for us to be escorted back into Aya Sofya the next day (through the VIP gate, no less) free of charge. Besides seeing the sights in Istanbul, we ...

... Santa Claus") and boarded our gulet (wooden yacht) where we joined 14 others for a Blue Cruise. The next four days were spent sailing the aqua-blue waters along the coast of the Mediterranean, snorkeling, swimming, sipping raki and soaking up rays. Occasionally stopping in at quaint little port towns, like Kas with it's "giant man" lying down across the mountain, and glorious beaches, including the beautiful Butterfly Valley ...

(Note- ı is actually i) For me, I fırst experıenced Istanbul as a cıty of sound reverberatıons. Not echoes- echoes allow more tıme to pass than Turkey wıll accept. For example: Dusk outsıde the Blue Mosque. Sanded park benches sıt alıgned ın a square where cotton candy hawkers and chaı sellers carryıng trays of small fluted glasses weave between famılıes and travelers. Dust ıs aglow agaınst the multı-domed ...

... with all these stars cut out of it... A little while later my lady came back and told me to rinse again then come back and lay on the slab -- all ready for my massage when she told me to take off Everytink... my reply was 'Everything???' and she nodded and repeated everytink!!... so I did. She soaped me up and massaged all over then i rinsed off and then went and sat down like a kid between her legs where she ...

... to kıll. The Turkısh men seem to have an adversıon to the razor and go about sportıng week long facıal haır growth more so than full beards thus gıvıng them an unkept apperance. Makes me fıt rıght ın. Our plans are to be here for several more days but there ıs no scense fortellıng our plans as we wıll have nothıng to relate to you ın a few more days. Enjoyıng ourselves ımmensely and slowıng our pace. Happy bırthday Zoe a specıal frıend.