Titanic Business Hotel Istanbul

... jazz appreciation at Bosphorous University where she graduated. She lived for 2 years in Baton Rouge getting her MBA there and she and her husband went every weekend to New Orleans. She fell in love with the music and the culture and was determined to find a way to have jazz in her life here. She is the person with the fabulous home that gave the party for me--just in case you are not keeping up.<br><br>I was going to delete all the people who have not said a ...

Hello again!<br><br>When we went to sleep on Friday night at around 5 after having nice talks about love and relationship, i decided not to put an alarm. I expected to wake up when it is getting light in the room anyway, so i didnot care.<br>I was wrong!<br>I woke up at 14:30! OMG! i did not sleep that long since i was totally drunken in Lissabon,haha!<br>But i liked it, i could feel the power rising ...

... that everything was done appropriately and with class. <br><br>this week has really flown by - i woke up on monday and now here i am on thursday night... i am really looking forward to this weekend though - my friend alice and i are finally going to reina - i know that ive been talking about that sooooo much but i just cant contain my excitement!!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH i cant wait to dance the night away. <br><br>ok thats all the news for now... i miss home. 

... good-manners. I'd like to see them hire old grandmothers and grandfathers to walk around the mosque with sticks hitting and yelling at the people with shorts, bare shoulders, and other improprieties, just like they were misbehaving children. Next was the underground cistern. They Byzantine (East Romans) discovered that the natural sources of water could not support the growing population, so they build an amazing underground storage ...

... stress was combined with the first technical difficulties i have experienced up until now on this reording adventure--namely, recording moslem's nay.  admittedly, this was the first time i have ever tried to record a wind instrument, and my akg c1000s microphones seemed to be picking a disproportionate amount of high frequency that was hard to balance out.  not that we didn ...

... almost two and a half months of being in Turkey. I can't believe how fast the time flies. Today at 5:00, I will go and pick up my visa for India, then will head to the airport and catch my flight to Dubai. Suzanne and Mike, two of the foreign teachers who were teaching in China the same time as me, are now teaching in Dubai. I will stay in Dubai for five nights, then fly to India. The worst part about leaving Turkey is not knowing when I will be back again, but mark my words, I WILL be back! Until next time, Gaye

... down the road a little further and ended up at the second best club in ortakoy, called sortie. we got in and had the best time. the dancing and atmosphere was insane... it was so fun just to dance with friends and laugh at the scene around us. good times. sunday: well, today was a little more low-key than the past two days. my friends and i decided to go to eminonu, another district of istanbul and go see the yeni cami (cami is mosque in turkish). it was my first time at a ...

... partiers went on to a bar where we danced until 4am... so it was unfortunate that I then had to get up to make breakfast on no sleep the following morning! We then made our way towards Olympos, with a few short stops on the way. Here we stayed in tree houses (ish) and visited the spontaneous natural flames in the national park. We then drove onwards to Saklikent Gorge where a few of us went 'river tubing'. This involves sitting in a big donut with a paddle and trying not ...

... inside the palace. The palace itself is cool, I wish I were a Sultan. They got all the coolest ****. A harem, private gardens, turkish baths, treasures. Mmmmmmmm. We had lunch at some little restaurant picked by the tour guide (good k&#305;d himself), where they served some INTENSE lentil soup, with a salad side, and a basket of bread. Next, a kebap. Turkish kebaps are nothing like we get from dodgy shops in Australia. They´re just on a plate, not wrapped in anything ...

... is all cobblestoned streets, carpet shops, sidewalk cafes and restaurants and their associated touts standing outside to lure you in. If it weren't for the carpet shops you would think you were in Europe. We check into our hostel, 'The Big Apple'. Istanbul is busy, it is August after all, and everywhere is full. This means that our sixteen-bed dorm is at full capacity. Somehow we have managed to avoid dorms almost entirely since Australia, over eight months ...