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Van and Visitors
... our local bar on Tuesday night and were able to collect a great deal of supplies (see the picture in this entry) which were sent out the next day.
The Tuesday evening of our Van fundraiser was also the first day that Ron and Sam were in Istanbul. Unfortunately, since their visit overlapped with Kurban Bayram, we were in Lebanon for part of their visit. That said, we certainly made the most of ...
Day 2 in Istanbul
October 16 2011
Day Two in Istanbul
Temperature is 14 C and pouring rain.
Today our intention was to go to a Hamam or a Turkish bath. I was really looking forward to that the most and it is within a 10 to 15 minute cab ride. However, the local cabbies don't like to take short distance fares, so they look at you with their big scary dark eyes, tell you "cab is broken" and you go find ...
Its Istanbul not Constantinople !
... artwork – fascinating.
We have a set list of goodies to buy, having not really bought anything on our travels – trinkets don’t travel very well in backpacks - we decide since this is our last stop to buy some things for us! Our first stop however is not the Grand Bazaar, Jim wants a nargile and we were not really impressed by the tourist ones offered at the bazaar, they did not look very robust and were more likely to ...
Blue Mosque - Not that hard to find......(Andrew)
... and were taken for a guided tour. He was very interesting, informative and genuine. We now know why the ostrich eggs hang from the ceiling, that there are hour glasses engraved into the pillars, why there were mistakenly 6 domes built instead of 1 golden one, that 4000 workers took 7 years to construct it and they all signed the bases of the pillars, that the water beneath it protects it from earthquakes, that all the tiles are hand made and painted, and that, according ...
Istanbul's not Constantinople
... at 9.30 and then the show. This talk continued for almost 45 minutes. In Turkish. One of our group fell asleep...I worked on this blog! At 10.30 we finally had a performance; but I think by this time we were so tired and exhausted from waiting that the reaction wasn't the same. However it was still interesting to see. The movement is incredible and I find it truly amazing that they don't get dizzy!After an apple tea, we went to the metro station to catch ...



