The tour has started!
Day three of our holiday and we are in Istanbul - home to more mosques than you can shake a stick at (the call to prayer is fantastic to hear). We've seen the Blue Mosque, the Aya Sofya, the Grand Bazaar, the Spice Bazaar, a whole bunch of other ruins and the Topaki Palace which had more rubies, emeralds and diamonds than we ever thought possible. We've also done a ferry ride on the Bosphorus, a walk in new Istanbul (we're staying in Sultanahmet - old Istanbul), and are just off to a hammam tonight (Turkish bath).
Day three of our holiday and we are in Istanbul - home to more mosques than you can shake a stick at (the call to prayer is fantastic to hear). We've seen the Blue Mosque, the Aya Sofya, the Grand Bazaar, the Spice Bazaar, a whole bunch of other ruins and the Topaki Palace which had more rubies, emeralds and diamonds than we ever thought possible. We've also done a ferry ride on the Bosphorus, a walk in new Istanbul (we're staying in Sultanahmet - old Istanbul), and are just off to a hammam tonight (Turkish bath).
But enough of the sight seeing, what about the kebabs?? Having saved up for the last 6 months to have an authentic one, we've been doing our best to try every variation we can see. Not a bad one yet! The pomegranate juice was Amelia's favourite, whereas Adrian just can't go past the kebabs...
We're staying at party hostel central, so are feeling very virtuous by the amount of touring we're doing compared to most of the other the Antipodeans who don't tend to get out of bed until midday at the earliest. Getting up at 4am for the dawn service should be interesting!
Everything's pretty reasonable, particularly our favourite dinner place where we can both get a huge meal for about NZD5 each. We got a bit gipped paying NZD9.50 for a pint while we were watching the football the other night, but soon felt better once we learnt that a double measure of spirits in the same place was NZD41!
Onto Gallipoli tomorrow.
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