Sirkeci Konak Hotel

... old town of Constantinople, the city that is now called Istanbul. The bus dropped us off at our family operated Hotel for the coming days, the Sirkeci Konk. We were welcomed by the reservations manager, probably the daughter of the owner. Over a cup of ...

... Of course, it was night time, the guy was flying, possibly to try to break his last record in getting from Airport to Hotel. Hotel Serkeci Konak is a small 57 room hotel. Too large to be boutique, but definitely the feel of one. When we arrived, we ...

... it took us some time to find it, but eventually we did. Down at the hill we took the tram back to Sultanahmet. Back at the hotel I checked some mails and had to do a bit of work. For dinner we went to the highest rated restaurant on tripadvisor, a place ...

... mosque was comissioned between 1609-16 by Mehmet Aga, the imperial architect for Sultan Ahmet I. While everything is conveniently located, our hotel seemed to be at the "bottom" of the hill from all the monuments. In my thought process, if this is a ...

... the bell-hop here for obvious reasons. So that was Sunday night. Monday- got going reasonably early starting with the hotel breakfast, Turkish style. Explored the area of Sultanahmet with Mum in tow, taking the hilly cobbled streets slowly. Ate lunch ...

... of is the squat loo. Yes, now we will discuss Turkish toilets instead. So when, in the middle of the day and too far from our hotel, we find a public loo. Men descended a flight of stairs on one side and women on the other but both pay their 1 TL to the ...

... hours of flying. I highly rec'd not flying coach if you can find someone else to pay for the ticket. Dinner on the hotel rooftop celebrating G's bday with nice views of the gardens below Topkapi Palace. Living in the land of on-demand food, you forget ...

The cross-roads of the two most influential continents in the world come together here... of all places, in Istanbul. The Bosphorous Strait, separating Turkey into two and essentially connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, is the ...