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Finally in Istanbul!
... Emperor Justinian, it reigned as the greatest church in Christendom for a thousand years. It was within these walls that the Byzantine emperors were formally crowned and the practice continued until the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmet the Conqueror who claimed the church for Islam and converted it into a mosque.
A balcony on the upper level wraps around the central area and allows one to appreciate the enormity of the open space even better. You can ...
Türkmenistan
... was an ethnic Tatar and therefore spoke Tatar, a language even more similar to Turkish. So we could actually communicate, as no one in our group spoke Russian. Of course, he had to tell us some things in Russian, but he had some great stories in Tatar. We went to some historic places in the delta on the Özbekistan border that were totally uninteresting except for the pagan habits we saw locals observing. For example, women ...
Goodbye UK, Hello Turkey
... top restaurant and bar, swming pool, Turkish Hamman (steam room) . All that I hoped it would be.
The travel agent recommended a restaurant and we had a Turkish speciality Testi Kebab. The meat on skewers is cooked in clay oven then it is put into a clay pot with vegetables and spices and cooked some more on an open flame . It takes about 30 mins. It comes out to the table with the clay pot on a tray all aflame. It' s a great show. The young ...
Lest We Forget
... packed up ready to go by 12.30pm, pretty good considering they had warned us that after the service you could have to wait up to 4 hours!!!
Feeling good after a really great morning we hit the road heading for Istanbul. We stopped off for some lunch in Gallipoli itself before then hitting the outskirts of Istanbul about 5pm - you could tell you were there by the traffic! A man flagged us down and we ended up pulling over ...
Ottomans and All the Men, Part II
... something I’ve always dreamed about. Not that kind of good. Mind you, other people are in the restaurant, but do they get any attention? Noooo. I saw the look of concentration on his face. About 10 minutes later, he came back with the little waiter pad and ripped off the top paper for me. He read his newly constructed sentence for me, rather painfully, “my you number give leater my inter wel meet okey,” followed by a number, followed by the sentence in Turkish. ...