Titanic Port Istanbul

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... Chris being the friendly oblivious man he was, he agreed and they caught a taxi during the middle of the day... He ended up in a dodgy area down some side roads. Chris went down for a beer. The guy got up to go to the toilet and once he came back he was shortly followed by two stunning girls who asked if they could buy them a drink. Again Chris been the nice guy he is, he agreed. But by this time he was getting a little suss. Prior to this the guy had agreed to go halves in the bill ...

... to any of the stores... the complex itself was impressive - it was outdoors and an actual mall complex as well... the higher end stores were in a "town square" format - people just walk around the square going store to store and the mall itself is huge and has so many stores to offer. :sigh: it was a good day :-) when i got back i had a project of distributing 3000 gift vouchers to be sent out to all 38 M&amp;S locations ...

... that my hostel room, (which had 12 beds) was empty, I ended up feeling at my absolute worst. Depressed yet? Don't be, it gets way better in a flash. I boarded an empty plane departing from Cologne and arriving in Istanbul in the afternoon. All negativity went away with this flight, because I was so excited to see this city. The only fear I had was about finding my hostel. They gave me directions that start out pretty simple, (take tram line A to stop ZZZ ...

... have to make. I'm missing her constantly. I love to hear her voice and know that she is OK. While speaking to her it became apparent that she has had a rough couple of days since we last spoke. The symptoms of the malaria and typhoid mean that she has days of complete lethargy, with headaches and stomach sickness thrown in for good measure. It is difficult to hear her shy of the vivacious, youthful, vitality that I associate with her. My heart aches for her as I say goodbye and hang up ...

... time. As the adventure of the night, we decided to check out the fabulous FREE sound and light show in Sultanahmed, in front of the Blue Mosque. I would definitely NOT go there just for the sake of seeing the sound and light show. There wasn't even that much light! Ugh! They could really learn a thing or two from the Egyptian sound &amp; light shows! And apparently the language ...

... saw us exploring the bosphorous, the channel that separates European turkey and Asian turkey. The water was a glorious blue colour, and the sun was shining. The ferry was going to take us up to the end near the black sea where we could have a sea food lunch before coming back. We got a fixed menu for 6 Euros and had a few beers. Everything was deep fried, but the calamari and mussels were great! We got kept up again with lots of music and people up all night. An ...

... and also the ANZAC museum. I hate to say it but the Australian monument puts the New Zealand one to shame......it stands so tall and so proud as a remembrance to all those lost in the war yet the NZ monument doesnt even have its own ground as it stand in the shadow of Turkeys monument to Ataturk. We attended an ANZAC eve Barbeque before heading into the cove where we would camp put for the dawn service the following morning. Luckily enough we managed to meet up with Laura ...

... Since the 1930's when Ataturk declared the site a museum, they have been restoring the mosaics and the rest of the church. After the almost obligatory carpet demonstration, we finished the day in the Grand Bazaar. A gigantic place packed with tourist and souvenir salesmen. Colorful but it just felt too 'tourist-y' for me. After about ½ and hour, we had enough and went back to the hotel. Dinner ...

Josh: Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople. If I was a melting snowman, I could still go to school...in a thermos. Bu-dum-cha!<br><br>Thank you, thank you. Now for the blog. We woke up and went to Topkapi Palace, the sultan's palace. When we got in, we got an audio guide and started walking around taking turns with it. We saw a kitchen. We saw where he kept his babes and where he kept a lot of other stuff. We also saw his treasury with an 86-carat ...