Friday, June 12, 2015

Twenty-Fifth Post From Türkiye: Istanbul & Gray

Our friend Gray came out to work for a month and it was fun to hang out with him.  Jack took him to Cappadocia and we had been saving our trip to Istanbul until someone came to visit. So Gray was forced to be our guinea pig.
Cappadocia




Istanbul
 Hippodrome/Obelisk
Kaiser Wilhelm's Fountain

 Topkapı Palace
 Harem
 Throne Room
 Turkish Tulips
Aww, friends.

 Grand Bazaar

 Book Bazaar

 Spice Bazaar

 Yeni Cami Mosque


 Fish Sammiches
 Boat Tour or for the boys Nap Time.


Aya Sophia
 Military Museum

 Jack teaches us an abbreviated history of Turkey.
 Taksim Square
 Photo Bomb
Istiklal Street and it's sea of humanity and variety of street musicians.





 Flower Passage

 Newest Metro Line out to Boğaziçi University. Where Jack spent a summer studying Turkish.

 I don't know what it is, but I love it!
Rumelihisarı 

  

 Byzantine Walls


 3 levels of defense
 There was a big bike race ending in Istanbul the weekend we were there. So fun to try to maneuver around the route.
 Cisterns



 Aya Sophia




Blue Mosque

Sleepy Kitty & Puppy

2 comments:

Hillary Bidwell said...

I don't think there is anything better that Jack being in Istanbul wearing a shirt with Tin Tin in Istanbul. For some reason it makes me so happy.

Erica said...

Here we went here! Unfortunately it was only for a few hours, so we didn't get all that you did in. So we are slackers and need to plan to meet up. We just finished a week in Normandy. Let's plan something in the future!