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hkenan23 on February 24, 2007 from Istanbul, Turkey

from the travel blog: H. Kenan YILDIZ

A return to the ancient city - Istanbul

Long trip to Istanbul (12 hours) - only real break was at a gas station buffet where the food was very very very dodgy…complaints to tour guide fell on deaf ears - he just doesn’t give a rats arse. On the way back to Istanbul we stopped in Busra to visit the Mosque (probably seen enough of...

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Tickles on April 28, 2006 from Istanbul, Turkey

from the travel blog: First European Adventure - A Gallipoli Experience

The History of Istanbul - awesome

Walking tour of Istanbul with the full Tour Group. Visited the Cistern, Bascillica, Hippodrome and Topkapi Palace. We were told that legend has it that the Medusa heads in the Cistern are upside down because a worker got the shits with his boss and laid them incorrectly as pay back. You...

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Tickles on April 23, 2006 from Istanbul, Turkey

from the travel blog: First European Adventure - A Gallipoli Experience

Istanbul - wow!!

Had my first experience with a Turkish / Continental breakfast - cheese, olives, cold meat (not sure exactly what) and cay (tea). A few of the tour participants who had booked in Australia (9 day tour - those who booked in Europe were on an 8 day tour) were taken on a bus tour of Istanbul...

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Tickles on April 22, 2006 from Istanbul, Turkey

from the travel blog: First European Adventure - A Gallipoli Experience

The Start of my emotional journey to Gallipoli - Istanbul

Arrived in Istanbul, Turkey at 1620hrs. Had to wait for about 40minutes for the ‘Tour’ company to be ready to leave. Traffic was something that can only be seen to be believed - bumper to bumper and there is really no rules except for the largest and brashest and most constant horn driver...

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Tickles on April 21, 2006 from Istanbul, Turkey

from the travel blog: First European Adventure - A Gallipoli Experience

Day 4

Our final morning in Istanbul was spent touring the Dolmabahce Palace, which was just down the road from our hotel. Also an old Ottoman palace, this place was spectacular, by far the most beautiful and impressive sight we had seen thus far into the trip. Room after room was decorated with...

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shoshtrvls on June 5, 1996 from Istanbul, Turkey

from the travel blog: Turkey and Greece (1996)

Day 3

This was a much more leisurely day. Our morning began lounging at the hotel pool which, like everything else in this hotel, looks out over the Bosphorus, actually seeming to be a part of it as the water runs from the upper pool to the lower pool and into the strait.[p> The afternoon took us...

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shoshtrvls on June 4, 1996 from Istanbul, Turkey

from the travel blog: Turkey and Greece (1996)

Day 1

Well, it took me and Mark 23 hours to get to Istanbul; we left Philly at 1 p.m. on Saturday and arrived at our hotel at 7 p.m. Turkish time on Sunday. Fortunately, the trip was not as unpleasant as it might have been, despite the many long layovers and out-of-the-way stop-overs (someone at...

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shoshtrvls on June 2, 1996 from Istanbul, Turkey

from the travel blog: Turkey and Greece (1996)

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