Orient Mintur Hotel - Istanbul
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The Turk Tit Slap
Istanbul with Andrea - A week of laughing. Andrea and I met in Vietnam last year: we spent a couple of days cycling through the rice paddies in Nimh Binh. She is 35, Dutch, works for government, lives in the city of Arnhem and is an only child. Her parents live in a tiny village between Arnhem and Amsterdam and they are adorable.
The …
Toque Please, We be in Istanbul
... inexpensive and to top it all off there was free wifi! it was the most perfect restaurant we could have chosen. We ate vine leaves, baba ghanoush, hummus, delicious pita bread and goat cheese to start. Our main meals were even more delicious than the starters, we ate kebabs, turkish ravioli, rice and it was all perfect. Such a lovely evening. We decided to head back to the ship to get ready before we went out to a club. It was going to be the last overnight for the ...
Turk a Lurk
... to to Hagia Sofia, bang a left go through Gulhane Park and then out to the Sea of MarMara. You can run for miles on the sea and literally see everything, old guys enjoying their morning swim, the fishermen, the westerners running and the freighters moving; waiting for their turn on the Bosphorus. The run back gives you the site of the Bosphorus bridges, the Golden Horn and the 3 parts of the mighty city of 20 million.
Yener's ...
Istanbul
... or bus ride. My first impression was that Istanbul was very pretty. The spring flowers had all bloomed and there were many tulips, which actually originated in Turkey!
The hotel was a boutique hotel, as are many of the hotels in Istanbul. I had a made a booking for dinner at Amedros Cafe not far from the hotel for a special dinner for Mike’s birthday. It was rated 3rd best on tripadvisor. The food was delicious and our ...
18th October Istanbul- Turkey
... insurance at the border anyway but they would not even talk to us until we had completed this – so off to buy insurance. Three month minimum at €78 we were not impressed but paid and finally after two more checks we got through. They blankly refused to fill in our Carnet for the van so hopefully we won’t have a problem when we go to leave. Fun and games!
It was a very long drive and we didn’t really intend to drive all the way ...