Seres Istanbul

... the keys, hit the bathroom, and away we went. In 2000, my daughter and I traveled by bus from Kathmandu, Nepal to Lhasa, Tibet. It was not a ride for the fainthearted! Because of the altitude, you must drink a lot of water and because of the bouncing bus, you have to pee all the time. I think in the first 4 hours on the first day of travel, we must have stopped about every half hour to "find a bush". That's how I felt today ...

... that you wanted i got meatballs with mash potato and cheese on top and Ian had a stew it was fit. Then we went into the square for sunset again this time we sat and had a turkish apple tea with all the locals and ended up singing manchester united songs as they play a turkish team next week called Besiktas. Istanbul is an amazing place and we both loved it so much but happy to leave tomorrow. We wll put pics on tomorrow as computer wont let us xxxx

Dear friends and family,

As you all know, after cycling around 10,000 kms from Amterdam to Kazakhstan, I got hit by a wedding convoy in Kazakhstan and became the worst wedding gift ever! I was badly hurt, Bryan and I went through some really difficult times. Difficult times called for creative measures! Bryan created a character and I wrote the stories. We ...

... salvation, health and wealth are all bases of people's religious framework. But God loves and really only desires love in return. So, here in the capital of several empires, I sit, grateful for the free choice to love God in return for his love freely given. Governments and emperors can issue edicts and pass laws, but they can't make true relationship. They can convert a space from the use of one religion to another and build ever bigger structures. And ...

... thing" that separated the Americans from everyone else. At first I decided it was the hair. European men tend to grow their hair a bit longer than American men do and it looks "messy" in a very stylish way. This method of identification has a high accuracy rate, but only if the person in question is male and between the ages of 16 and 35. I needed something better...and I found it- shoes ...

... any people my age here, even the girl I am travelling with is 10 years older, but I don't mind. It's good to socialise with people of all ages and backgrounds. I am still getting people who very annoyingly assume I am too young to be travelling by myself or to be drinking alcohol; or that the girl I am travelling with is my mother. I think I am just as capable of getting around alone as any other adult. The staff are so lovely - a lot of the waiters know me by my first name, despite ...

... the Ottomans conquered Constantinople in 1453, Mehmet the Conquerer was so taken by Aya Sophia.s beauty that he refused to blow it up and instead turned it into a mosque. Because in Islam, iconography is forbidden, most of the beautiful  mosaic images were plastered over until 1935 when Ataturk proclaimed it a museum/ Since then, with plenty of UNESCO funding, the building has been slowly and painstakingly restored, as more and more mosaics are revealed from beneath centuries of ...

... The flight was comfortable and thankfully not totally full. We got to Istanbul by around 12:30pm and then grabbed a cab to the hostel, yes grabbed a cab, after fighting metros in all the cities we have been to, we decided for the last 2 days we are gonna take it easy, plus it was pretty cheap. The hostel is great, its one of the highest rated on hostelworld, and it ...

... a small room that had three massage tables. I was assigned a different attendant for this portion, who seemed like he could have been a professional body builder. Then began an extremely painful test of will on my part. He made things hurt in me that I did not know I even had. Keeping quiet the whole time I just thought "this is all part of the experience." I learned later that I should have told him to go light, since ...

... of the arts and architecture campus of Istanbul Bilgi University which is where Zeynep is a member of the faculty. This space would make you quite envious Jeff. Five floors of tall ceilinged multifunction galleries that can be configured to each exhibit. It's in a turn of the century former steam generated power plant. Very cool. This was quite an event with hundreds of people in attendance from Istanbul socialites to University students. In ...