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The Little Mosque on the Bosporus
Hello All: We finally got to Istanbul, aka Constantinople, after the Greek government employees rampaged in downtown Athens, costing us poor innocent Canadians a whole bunch of extra Euros from flight cancellations. I know I should not complain because 3 bank employees lost there lives for nothing.
So Istanbul is a pretty cool place. Our 3 …
First day
... to the hotel, easy stuff. But then.. Ever played crazy taxi? I have. Today. Except it was real life and the murderous driver had a steering wheel instead of a sega controller. I found myself longing for a traffic jam so he'd stop pretending the busy streets were actually the nurburgring. Traffic slowed a bit and there wasn't enough space for his psychotic brand of lane changing, which was good, but then it was time for ...
Geminis and Good Times
... to the islands every weekend -- sometimes on Fridays, often on Saturdays, a few times heading out on Sundays, and a handful of times going twice in the same week. For the first part of the summer, we continued to hit up Burgazada, the island we always went to in 2011, but as the summer progressed, we started to frequent Heybeliada (the next island) instead. What's lovely about ...
Nargileh Contemplations: Istanbul Days 3-6
... I can, but I don't make it my end goal. Ultimately, I care more about quality of food, quality of experience, and price. Usually, this means local, but not always. All this is to say: if you make it your goal to find an off-the-beaten-path place, I'd wager you're doing it wrong. "Local" shouldn't be an end in and of itself, but rather should be a component of the decision process when it comes to visiting something or eating somewhere. I like when I stumble upon a local place, rather ...
Do You Want A Carpet?
... then found a great restaurant the served the best Turkish food we had in Turkey. Then we got some pastries and went to a tea shop and had Turkish tea. They serve tea in cute little glasses you have to hold at the top of the glass so you don’t burn your fingers. We also walked through a hookah lounge. A Hookah is a big pot of tobacco that people share. I don’t particularly like the smell or atmosphere of the Hookah lounges.
We are back in the hotel ...