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A Very Interesting Country
... Spice Market used to only sell spices, but now it sells everything. It's a smaller scale Grand Bazaar. Sam bought her umpteenth wallet and I replaced my Tree of Life necklace that broke, with two necklaces, one with the ying and the yang, the other with an Evil Eye painted on the Hand of Miriam. Both are supposed to protect me from evil and bad luck, so I'm either going to be really lucky or really unlucky. Try to guess what I'm hoping for. After the Spice Market, we went on a ...
Istanbul
... buildings. The separate rooms contained palace/treasury items of jewels, crowns, etc. There were so many people that going into some of the rooms took 30 mins. The palace had a great view of the Bhosphorus Sea and we stopped by for a snack and a drink. One section showed the relics from Mohammad, Abraham and Moses. We were able to go into the haram as well which were the living quarters of the sultan and his family, including his many women. I ...
18th October Istanbul- Turkey
... we need to pick up our Iranian visa’s, so we applied this morning (it’s only open 8.30 – 11.30am so with our 2hr campsite move we missed it yesterday!) it definitely pays to be Irish this side of the world, I was charged €40, Jim had to pay €140!! We have to go back on Friday afternoon to collect so I guess that gives us a few more days to enjoy Istanbul J
It is hard to believe we were sitting on a beach just 2 weeks ago, ...
Turkish delights
... about and others that were new. The youngest soldier to serve was 14 and the average age we saw on the head-stones was about 22. We learned more about Jack Simpson Kirkpatrick, the digger that rescued 300 Anzacs on his donkey, as well as reading transcripts from diaries kept by some of the Anzacs. There were also Indian soldiers fighting with the Anzacs, Maori soldiers with the New Zealanders, and Aboriginal soldiers with the diggers, although most are un-identified as ...
The golden horn of Istanbul
... s all possible. Also, it meant I could wake up the next morning knowing exactly what time to be at the bus station. When I was last in Turkey (along the southern coast) there were bus offices everywhere so it wasn't necessary to head out to the otogar (bus station) which is always located far from the city centre. Some of the Turkish bus stations are so far from the main part of town that a taxi fare from the bus station to the city centre usually costs more than the ...