Antique Hotel Istanbul

Istanbul is a pleasant change from Addis Ababa and its residual knee-jerk petty Communism, resulting in such 'enlightenment' as the apparent outlawing of all blogs, including that radical tool of unrest, TravelPod. Broadband is a luxury there and WiFi is a wet dream. So before I even leave IST airport I spend at least three hours at Starbucks uploading my blogs and trying to get caught up with work. The coffee ain't cheap, but that's not unusual here. Starbucks has several locations with pric...

Leaving Amsterdam was almost a relief..this was my third time in the city in a period of 3 months, I needed new sites. Plus, because my hostel was so unfriendly...I felt too lonely in the city. The worst problem however, was I somehow hurt my knee from walking so much. Don't ask me how it happened, but it made it almost unbearable to move around much less walk, which would have to be my number one mode of transportation on this trip. To be honest, it was only the fourth day of my adventure, a...

Most beatiful city. Ever.

We woke up really early in the morning to catch the first metro to the airport, our Turkish airways flight was early in the morning. It was sad packing up for the last time, since we knew we were on our way back home now. Its hard to believe that 4 weeks is almost over, its gone by like a blur. Anyway we managed to get the 5:20am metro to the airport and then checked in. The flight was comfortable and thankfully not totally full. We got to Istanbul by around 12:30pm and then grabbed a cab to ...

This is probably the last entry of our trip, we have a shuttle bus to Ataturk airport at around 3:00pm and then our flight leaves around 6. Its kind of sad that the trip is almost over, but it will be good to get home. Both vasu and me are a little tired but are already missing all the places we visited, and are slowly making plans for our next big trip :). later sam!!

Turkey ,as country, is rich with its marvillous nature, lies in two continents and mixes different ages of history like a sweet fruits coctail
Istanbul is one of the largest cities & fast growing cities in the world. Besides its distinctive location splitting between two old continents ,Asia and Europa, it gathers the hot night life with the warm heritage nights in one of its major avenues ,called Isteklal street

As an Egyptian , I found myself there sharing so many habits &...

Getting up early on Wednesday, Donna and I made our way out to Luton airport to board out easyJet flight to Istanbul. Be it tiredness or the comforting movement On landing at Istanbul airport, Donna and I made our way through all the tour operators and sheepish followers, to catch a bus into the heart of Istanbul. What we first noticed was the warm 23degrees, a stark difference to the sub 16 degrees back in London. The afternoon was spent taking a stroll around Istanbul, Sultarnamet in search...