Wow Hotels & Istanbul

... and different spices depending on who is making it. Shashlish are kebabs but usually they were just meat on a skewer. When you ordered a kebab you might get a plate of raw onion slices to go with it but never any veggies cooked with it. The dumplings came either with a meat mixture (meat and rice) or with pumpkin and again they were tasty depending on who was making it or rather bland and unappetizing. I had both ...

If you asked me to describe what Istanbul is like, and what we did, I would sit you down and talk at you until you ran out of paying for my beer. So bring a lot of money. It is a city that stirred a lot of emotions in me, and started me thinking on many things about the purpose of our trip. <br><br>On the one hand, Istanbul is cosmopolitan, sprawling, beautiful, hot, busy, lively, in your face and friendly. On the other, it is expensive, hot, busy, in your face and not so ...

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Hello all, We feel like we are back in the world of the living, breathing humans. It is cool, clean, and beautiful here!! We are beside ourselves with excitement. I really don't want to talk about Kenya, or even Egypt for that matter. We didn't have a bad experience in Egypt except for being ripped off with internet charges in the range of 13 to 38 dollars per hour!!! We were in an out of the way hotel which was nice, far nicer than we have ...

... the summer, they buy kilos of the stuff, then cut it up and dry it for use in the winter. It's amazing how all the ladies in the neighbourhood will help each other out to get the chore done. It's very social, and of course, goes much faster when there are more hands. After being in Konya for a few days, it was time to to back to Selcuk to get things organized for purchasing the property, such as getting a tax number and opening up a bank account so my money from home would have ...

... that i would like to feel. oh well, it has given me an opportunity to start one of my books called "black dogs" by ian mcewan. if you have not read any books by him i highly recommend him. this is the fourth book of his that i have read and its starting off very well. his most famous book is "atonement" which was just turned in to a movie. i havent seen the movie but i have a feeling that the book is better than the ...

... at the place a little more solemnly. I had a great time on the tour, but with so many young people around, it was kind of impossible to avoid the festival atmosphere. I remember hoping that the dawn ceremony itself would be treated with appropriate solemnity and sense of occasion. (As it turned out, I need not have worried). We came across one monument that particularly moved me. It was a quote from Ataturk, in 1934: Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives ...

... to have coffee and biscuits before heading out. We strolled along the Bosphorus to the Fortress of Europe - a 13th century castle built before the siege of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmet II. The walls and towers are intact with great views of the waterway below and the Asian side of Istanbul across the way. We continued our walk then took a taxi into the old part of town - the Sultanahmet area. Once in the inner city, we ...

... to discover Istanbul the next day and we started by visiting the Blue mosque which is an incredible piece of architecture. Then just opposite the blue mosque, there's the Aya Sofia which is an amazing building as well. The Aya Sofia was a church for 1000 years, then a mosque for 500 years and in 1930 it was declared a Museum by Ataturk. After a quick walk in on of the biggest bazaar in the world, we had seen all ...

Call it what you want, Istanbul or Constantinople, it is a huge city and rich in culture. It is very divided, upper class and poor class, though the poor class are not really poor just not wearing western brand clothing! Watch out for those ...