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TURKEY | Wed, 14 Oct 2009 | By tonielle_krisanski | Views [52]

After almost three months in Lagos, Portugal working behind a Portuguese bar, I left the warm beautiful beaches (where I’d only seen rain twice) to get on a plane that landed in a rainy, cold London. I spent a week here, staying with Leah who I met ... Read more >
Tags: istanbul, turkey, london, grand bazaar, taxim square, bosphorus, bacilica cistern, blue mosque, aya sophia
JAPAN | Sun, 12 Apr 2009 | By itinerant | Views [111]
It isn't so long ago that I went to Istanbul, and although—to enhance my experience—I read Orhan Pamuk ahead of my departure and Pierre Loti while in Istanbul, the memories of the time spent there are fading, leaving behind static images of this ... Read more >
Tags: japan, tokyo, kyoto, istanbul
TURKEY | Sat, 10 Jan 2009 | By joealotto13 | Views [190] | Comments [1]
I'm glad I decided to go all the way up to Istanbul after going through the whole middle east. Istanbul is where east meets west. On top of traveling through a whole region and watching the appearance of the people, language, culture, and food slowly ... Read more >
Tags: istanbul, turkey, aya sofya, topkapu palace, blue mosque, roman cistern
TURKEY | Mon, 5 May 2008 | By pushmorphine | Views [268] | Comments [2]
Istanbul, the gateway to Asia and also the first stop on my grand adventure from Turkey all the way to New Zealand.
My friend Mehmet's father, Mustafa, picked me up from the airport
and drove me
through the city to their beautiful apartment ... Read more >
Tags: istanbul, pushmorphine
TURKEY | Wed, 16 Apr 2008 | By ma_and_pa | Views [102]
Although we hadn't met each other yet we Pa' and I thought that it was important to include pictures from Turgay and Amy's wedding and party in Istanbul in this blog. The wedding was well attended by both family and friends. Amy's mother came over ... Read more >
Tags: istanbul, turkey, wedding, family
TURKEY | Sun, 28 Oct 2001 | By stowaway | Views [1343] | Comments [7]

We left Greece and after a long and annoying border check, we entered Turkey and drove to Instanbul. I had 3 days there to wander around and went to the Blue mosque and St Sofia and lots of museums (such as the archaeological museum, the museum ... Read more >
Tags: food & eating, turkey, istanbul, anzac, blue mosque, troy, belly dancers, termessos, olimpos