Welcome Majesty Belizia Hotel Bodrum Peninsula

... people Bodrum is something like MYKONOS.
Unfortunately we have not much time to visit the Castle with the Museum.....but probably another time we will.

We left with the best impressions and Zinet our tour leader played an important role to this. I however have to admit that I expected Bodrum to be much cheaper than Kos, but I was wrong. Even the food is expensive here, and the souvenirs and everything have the same price as in Greece.

... thats the way it is over there i guess.  We also got to go inside the Aya Sofia which is the most historical landmark in Istanbul.   It was build in the Byzantine era and was one of the largest cathedrals ever build for thousands of years.  It stood as a church until Constantinople was taken over by the Turks and was ordered to be converted into a Mosque when the city became Istanbul.  Little history lesson for you there.  It ...

... an abrupt end to your whole trip! I went to the side of the line and emptied the contents of my carryon bag three times and was in absolute shock when the purse carrying my money and passport were not in there. How could I have lost everything? What kind of cruel joke were the travel gods playing on me? I did a complete check of my entire luggage before resigning myself to the fact that I would ...

... sooo much more bling! Annthalina you would have loved it darling! Our last challenge was to find the famous Baklava shop, which claims to make the BEST baklava in the land, well they're not wrong we found it and sampled it and yeeeeuuuum! I have decided walnut if my fav and the chocolate baklava also went down rather well :P So we had to leave istanbul for an overnight bus to Gorome, but we have made sure we have a days shopping time here when we return for our flight back to the UK :D

... is certainly nicer than those at Terminal 2 that most foreign carriers use. Their new Terminal 3 should have been open by now...but this is Egypt. Next year, insh'Allah (God willing). Agian, this is still Egypt so check-in was a bit chaotic even for business class. Some woman that worked for the airline was complaining to the person checking me in throughout the entire process. She could have cared less about the ...

... awesome experience, climbing old ladders and squeezing through tunnels until we arrived, panting at the top. Returning back to solid ground, we stopped by a little restaurant called Fat Boys run by an Aussie and her Turkish husband, where we'd heard meat pies were on the menu. Having not even caught a snifter of a meat pie since we've been away, it was a wonderful taste of home. On our last day in Cappadocia, we received word ...

... in my compartment and his name was John who came from U.S. He was 22 years old, much youner than he looked. In crossing the border between Bulgaria and Turkey, all the passenger had to get off the train to have a visa stamp, although I was told I didn't need a visa, because I was Japanese. So I was a little bit confused. Strangely, that was the first time to get off the train to get a visa at the border during my long train journey in Europe. Turkey is in Near East, or ...

... both the Christian and Muslim traditions. Crucifixes and beautiful mosaics of Jesus, John the Baptist, and Mary still remain while the rest of the place of worship has tributes to Allah and the Koran. Despite the scaffolding in the center of the building for restoration, the church/mosque was very impressive. After getting absolutely poured on, we stopped for a kabob before heading into the Turkish baths...dun dun dun. When we ...

Arghh! I've just mistakenly deleted the whole entry I just typed up! Guessiung which option to pick on menus in a different language every day is great fun. It went something along the lines of: delayed at border for 3 hours, got to Istanbul alive thanks to our bus driver - traffic and drivers here are ...

... the Baptist- the very same head dunking enthusiast made famous in the Bible. We also managed to slip in a couple of visits to the Grand Bazaar, where Renee haggled hard for a few Turkish souvenirs. You could easily spend a month in Istanbul, it's a great city with an abundance of things to see and do. Plus the food is fantastic. But after a few days it was time to move on and meet up with Kerry and Jez for the final time.