Great weather and wonderful moments shared with my P.
Usually I study carefully maps and travel guides before my hoidays. This time I hadn't the time so I studied the guide on the plane!!!
We were in a nice hotel in Sultanhamet, the old city so we visited the Blue Mosque.
It's so huge and striking especially at night when all the lights are on.
Aya Sophia is a big museum now but in the past was a basilica and then a mosque.
We spent a day inside Topkapi palace. It's strange to think that still at the beginning of the last century there were a Sultan living there and concubines and eunuchs. Fantastic treasures like a big diamond and the famous dagger with diamonds and emeralds.
Then a walk along the Bosphorus,
the fish market and an afternoon in the Bazar. You can get lost if you don't have a map.
Then kebab, pistachio and honey sweets, ottoman recipe, çai, turkish tea, pomegranate juice, simit.
4 days aren't enough for Istanbul, but very good for start!
