Istanbul Guest House

Our task will be learning to live in the world, any place, day to day as gypsies. We sold our house, spent the summer logging hours of research, and shrunk our belongings to one suitcase each for the next nine months. It seemed easy in our 20's to sling ...

... gaudiest, most uncomfortable furniture ever allowed since the Spanish Inquisition and décor that would be rejected in a Blackpool guest house. Whilst it is mostly pretty awful, the individual craftsmanship has to be admired. How the compulsory tourist ...

... the hard-way that few people speak English, we had a passerby at the airport confirm our reservations at the Turkish National Police Guest House (yes, deluxe accomidations await! - and yes, that was sarcasm). We then hired a taxi to drive us the hour ...

... xed ınto a kınd of sausage, apparently the turkısh people go mad for thıs stuff and ıt costs a fortune, our guest house guy (who Issıe ıs now playıng Backgammon wıth) took Issıe down to the local seller to ...

... FedEx envelope in their name, letting us know when it arrived and putting it safely away until we arrived back at their guest house. Thank you ever so much, your kindness and offer to help us is greatly appreciated. Everything worked our just perfect. ...

After finishing breakfast and making a liberal application of sunscreen, we found our way from the University Guest House across the campus of istanbul Technical University. By foot and funicular, we moved up some winding streets to the busteling heart of ...

... for this insanely long post, but I saw and did SO much this weekend that I had to include it all here. OMGOSH I went to ISTANBUL!! I went with my roommates from Friday 2/12 to Monday 2/15, because we had Monday off from school for Clean Monday, a Greek ...

... decided that Istanbul was the perfect place to do my Christmas shopping, and where better to start than the Grand Bazaar, definitely Istanbul’s most famous shopping experience. There is no doubting that it is Grand, the place is huge and it takes a ...

... the inside of the lavishly furnished Palace, unfortunately no pictures were allowed to be taken.  Regardless, I felt just like a house guest as I toured room after room admiring the original furniture in each one of them.  The richness and ...

... ; We finished with a Bosphorus mini cruise which was good as by then neither of us could have walked another step.  All in all we had a great weekend and wouldn't hesitate to recommend Istanbul as a "must see" ...

... basially means someone bathed her. i took this time to sleep. i prefer my decision, but she seemed to really like the bath house which is a really traditional turkish thing to do (nudity and lots of touching, angela's words not mine). those are two things ...

... we have to carry them around until we get to a post office and the mail is costly.  In no time out all we had to get back to our little guest house and make it to the airport for our flight to Madrid, hasta luego amigos.   ...

... ;to 6 hour drive from Istanbul) while  I was here I decided to book a couple of tours with the reception desk at my guest house to maximise my time in this beautiful city.  I booked a City tour (great way to see an informative summary of a ...

... . The natural landscape is of bizarre stone formation, which early civilizations carved out cave homes and entire underground cities. We found a cave guest house with a family sized room. Our room was nice and cool during the heat of the day, but a little ...

... which is undertaken with a good natured, helpful and smiling attitude. Sleeping under a giant tent on the roof of the Mavis Guest House in one of twenty seven beds stacked in twos and threes, I found myself living in a sleeping station; people coming and ...

... onto the moon.  The views were really unusual. The room in our hostel was even a cave and the hostel's name was Flinstones Guest House. My Aussie friends flew back home and from Goreme I took a bus north to Konya.  I was hoping to see a ...

... . We met them in Varanassi when a monkey nearly stole Arzu's package of cigarettes on the roof top restaurant of the Shanti Lodge guest house. We met them again in Fort Kochi and steered them to the 'Travellers Paradise' where Jude was able to get them ...

... Muslims to prayer.  (starting at 5 AM in the morning as we discover)   We check into the charming old wooden guest house, the Emine Sultan and are greeted by the warm and friendly staff.  Since the room is not ready yet, we drop ...