Hotel Mola
Travel Blogs from Istanbul
Market, Mosque and Mayhem! - Saturday 20 Oct 2012
... time I tried Raki was my last trip to Turkey at 17 where it resulted with my face down on a pepperoni pizza. I was a little anxious but that was 13 years ago and hoped I had built some tolerance. So when served this drink it given and it is this clear liquid but then you add water and it turns cloudy. We all took a sip and that taste of aniseed hits you and it was so strong it felt like you could feel the alcohol burn the inside. After dinner we headed to the bar next door and ordered ...
Lots of Walking, Not Much Cash: Istanbul Days 1-2
... with an even grander dome than the Blue Mosque. The highlights were easily the effusive tile-work climbing up to the dome and the outstanding views of the Bosphorus one could find in the side courtyard. It seems as though from any vantage point in Istanbul you can see the Bosphorus straight (separating Europe from Asia) and yet I will never get tired of the myriad vistas this incredibly picturesque city has to offer.
The Şchzade Mehmet Mosque was notable for ...
Istanbul Was Constantinople
http://vimeo.com/6746927 The period of early Christian art, called Byzantine, spanned over a thousand years and was centered in Constantinople. It was in 330 after a prophetic dream that Constantine converted from paganism to Christianity and made Christianity a legal religion. With the legalization of the Christian religion, Byzantine art flourished in the form of frescos and mosaics illustrating the life of Christ and ...
Building a Global Movement
... men sitting lounging around smoking and drinking coffee and playing cards while listening to these hard-working female leaders describe all the obstacles they face and all the work women do makes me just want to scream! One of our tour guides who was this really smart, fun young Turkish woman described how one time on a really hot day she saw all these children and women laboring out in the fields and then drove by a coffee house and saw all these men lounging sround ...
Chapter Three - East is West and West is East
... the Bosphorus to the terminal at Kabataş.
"How do we pay for the fare?" we ask another tourist for help. “It's really quite easy.” She replies. “See that machine over there with all the people milling around in front of it? It’s a Jetonmatik and it takes lira bills and spits out jetons, which are plastic tokens. You then just pop the tokens into the slot ...
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