We’ve arrived in Istanbul where the temperature was a refreshing 25C. Utter bliss after the scorching days in Athens. We are staying at the same hotel we stayed at in 2018 at the end of traveling the Old Silk Road - such wonderful memories. Hagia Sophia is right outside our window. Itt is so beautiful. We have six days here before boarding a ship bound for Venice.
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| Cool drinks after a long drive from the airport - it is Saturday and summer! |
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| The restaurant on the roof of our hotel. Excellent food with fantastic views |
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| A restaurant with $million views |
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| Sultan Ahmed Mosque at dusk |
Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque) which we can see from our roof-top restaurant, is glorious in the twilight. Then the air comes alive with the haunting adhan which echoed across this city of over 3000 mosques. It is ever so spine chilling but its meaning an encomassing expression of a city's psyche.
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