Yenisehirpalas Hotel Istanbul

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... timetable at least! ) with the cylinder head damaged by the crash and the rear sub-frame badly bent from the fall off the trailer. Another bad day for Baz! It was going to have to be a tow behind the Landy all the way home!<br><br>Ah well, not all bad as we are now all off to the pool and iced beers &amp; cheesburgers. Great to be back in civilisation!<br><br>Cheers, Rick

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... on a Bosphorus Scenic Excursion ferry and it was a great day! We saw a number of sites along the trip includýng the new(er) Royal Palace (where Ataturk dýed ýn 1938 - I do not remember the name of it but it begins with a D). After we reached our destination in a tiny village (I have the name written down but I can not spell it off the top of my head), I managed to convince Cynthia to climb up to some old castle ruins (when it was built there were eýght ...

... tram to our hostel. Istanbul was full of great people, great food, and great cultures and we experienced them all. We saw the Mosque of Suleyman, Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia, and the Topika Palace. The mosques where magnificent with there colors and mosaics. When we arrived at both the Mosques we had to wait as they were in the middle of the prayer services. Five times a day chants are sung from the top of the mosques ...

... At 4am all the passengers were hearded off the bus to pay for our visas--it was 15 euros for almost everyone but canadians had to pay 45! I thought about asking the customs official since when was turkey admitted to the EU and started collecting euros, but then I thought better. Next I was woken up 4:30am to have my passport returned and at 5am I was woken up to have my bags checked by customs. So much for a good night sleep... Arrived at 9am in Istanbul after a 13.5 hour train ...

um so im really really bad at updating this thing..... sorry! i can't even remember the specific days that I did certain things so I'm just going to list the various things I did since thursday Grand Bazaar (about 2 times)- once on friday and again on monday with mark teschauer who is visiting istanbul for a week! woo! the grand bazaar was really cool.... i totally love being hollered at by random turkish storekeepers... AWESOME here were some of the ...

... hotel (the "Liberty") dumped our bags and went off to explore again. The Grand Bazaar is quite appropriately named. It is definitely Grand(iose) and it's certainly bizarre. It's like an enormous semi underground shopping mall, but about a thousand times more intense. Crammed to overflowing with vendors selling absolutely anything and everything and a few other things besides. People haggling (which is a way of life over there) and yelling and carrying on. Being tourists ...

... line. What is our responsibility in world affairs? We have to acknowledge that we hold a great deal of power in the world...that is supported in the perception of so many people I speak to all over. And what shall we do with that power? How would I feel if my people were under attack? If my life did not hold the freedoms and the opportunity that it in fact does? It is easy for me to take these gifts for granted...but they are not shared ...

HE SAID: We cruised the Bospherus, which separates the Asian side of Turkey from the European side. Cruised is a nice term for the type of boat we actually were on. We chose to take the government boat v. private which was too crowded but provided a nice view of Turkey. The line to get on the boat was about as wide as the boat itself and when the doors opened to the dock to board the boat, about 10+ people ran at full speed to get the good ...