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Travel Blogs from Istanbul
Sultanamet, Istanbul
... this soup is very tasty, light in both texture and flavour andesite a little cola hopefully my gut issues will be over. Saturday 29 September Packed and checked out of the best Town Palace Hotel, right next to the police station... Happy to be moving on from Istanbul with a small replacement camera and a lot of wonderful memories despite the trauma of Monday. Today we take a ferry trip to Bursa. It's was a very smooth 2 hour trip on a very fast ferry. From the port we took. Local bus to ...
Incredible Istanbul
1st to 4th May, 2012
We left Alexandroupolis and after Rogan had fun and games getting on the right road to Turkey, we drove the short distance to the Greece/Turkey border.
Previous trips had suffered long delays and loads of bureaucracy crossing into Turkey from Bulgaria. Odyssey had taken the decision to have a couple of days in Greece in order to cross the border into Turkey from Greece to see if it made ...
Büyük Tren Yolculuğu
... 305;nda laflarken, bir "Acaba?" düştü aklımıza ve iki kişilik bir hayale dönüştü. Kitabı kurcalamaya başladık: nasıl, ne süreyle, kaç para? Tren biletleri 45 gün öncesinden alınabiliyordu ve hemen bitiyordu. Arada inip binerken nasıl ara biletleri ayarlayacaktık? Her gün tren yoktu. Bilet saatleri Moskova saatine göreydi vs vs. Demek ki bir acentaya gitmeliydik.
Biraz Lonely Planet, biraz ...
Sightseeing In The Rain, What A Glorious Feelin'!
... though, we made it to Topkapi Palace, the home of some of the early sultans of the empire before they
moved their palaces to the Bosphorus. The only rooms we got a chance to see (due to understaffing) were the Treasury and a room of religious relics.
The Treasury was an ode to luxury and the joy of bedazzling: everything was covered in rubies and emeralds and diamonds. There were sculptures carved out of pearls and a diamond the ...
Day 1 : The Arrival
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Une fois au sol le pilote nous annonce d'une voix blasé qu'il faut attendre 5 minutes que la route se libère pour qu'on puisse se garer. La libération arrive enfin vers 00:00. Petit contrôle du passeport plus tampon, on récupère les valises et on se dirige vers la station pour les bus HAVAŞ (10TL).
Les taxis commencent à venir nous parler pour nous ...