Spices at the Grand Bizzare.
A beautiful mosque near the Galata Bridge.
The Blue Mosque. Also amazing.
In front of the University. I got smarter just sitting there.
A peek inside the Aya Sofya, but just a peek (you have to visit to see the rest).Well, we had no idea what to expect from Istanbul but we were happy with what we found. After two months in South East Asia it was strange to be somewhere that was so, uh, orderly but we soon remembered what that was like to follow street signals again. Istanbul is a big beautiful city that we could have spent another week in just wandering about taking in the city that bridges the East with the West - literally split with one half in Europe and the other half in Asia. It was fascinating to be in a city so rich with history and surrounded by so many reminders of it. A we left we were imagining what we could do the next time we visited...
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