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Istanbul
... which spreads of two continents (Europe and Asia) divided by the Bosphorus Strait and the only place where two continents are joined by a bridge. I guess for soccer fans it is also a place where Harry Kewell spent some time playing for Galatasaray.
Today we took one of the full day ship tours but if you are one who likes to get out and about on your own this city is easy enough for this to be done as we discovered after doing this tour. The ship had ...
Kebab Kings
... some brunch, we headed back into the old town. Today we were headed for the old palace (Topkapi Sarayi Palace Museum, where the sultans used to live). We were expecting this really spectacular, up kept palace, but what we saw was slightly the opposite. Yes it looked majestic, but it was a little bit dishevelled. It reminded us, or me anyway of the ugly step sisters from "cinderella" fame. Besides the fact of dishevelment, the view was killer. Such an awesome view ...
Day two in the Bul
... accepted. He is a cool guy and you will be able to see him in some of the pictures...but that is enough about him. Today we tackled the Hagia Sofia, the Topkapi Palace, and also took a bus tour over to the Asian side to watch the sunset from the top of one of Istanbul's seven hills(see the pics and be amazed.)
The HS was absolutely ridiculous. Not only is it enormous, but the history behind it is pretty spectacular. I will let you ...
Palaces and Gallipoli
... Empire two battleships, and did. The Ottoman Empire got the ships and did training with them in the Black Sea, but for some reason attacked a Russian port. This made Russia angry. Russia was an English ally and also provided food for a lot of Western Europe. The Black Sea and Bosphorus and Sea of Marmara and Dardanelles out to the Aegean and Mediterranean needed to be kept clear as a sea route to Russia. England wanted to capture Istanbul to make sure ...
Day 230 - A Full Day of Travel & Our Thoughts
... Eastern Africans) money’. We experienced the microcosmic consequence of this and it was not endearing. Sometimes children, teenagers and even adults would literally say ‘give me (a dollar)’. To be clear they were not begging or really even asking rather, they were attempting to demand. We firmly rejected these statements and were alarmed at the incidence and existence of such circumstance.
A number of people we spoke ...
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