themes for these two days--walking, taking the tram, site-seeing, more cats and children, food and more food, shopping, Turkish jazz, the Sultan's palace, mosaics.
Food:
Cats and dogs
Tomorrow we are headed back. Not looking forward to the long plane ride but it will be nice to be back.
Food:
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| Hummus at Seafood Restaurant--they picked us at our hotel and brought us back after dinner!! |
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| Calamari and wine |
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| Cindy had sea bass--head is still attached |
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| Ro had sword fish |
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| tuna for me |
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| mid day snack during our walk on Tuesday. |
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| Tuesday lunch--baked potato stuffed and a cheese/spinach pizza which was really a quesadilla |
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| fuzzy--egg plant stuffed with meat. yummy. Cindy had the baked potato/zucchini/egg that I pictured in last blog. The place was a Greek Manny's without the corned beef. Our cheapest meal so far also--36 Turkish Lira or around 20 dollars for two. |
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| This girl joined for lunch near the Istanbul Modern |
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| so this this girl--very well behaved and quite cute |
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| Some evil eyes? at the Palace |
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| Is this the Sultan? |
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| one of this outfits |
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| the cooking house at the palace--smoke stacks at the top |
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| a mosaic tile at the Sultan's Palace |
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| another one--lots of photos of these |
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| tower across the Bosphorus from the palace |
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| one more cat at the palace |
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| our dinner companion at our last dinner out in Istanbul |
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| closer to the tower on Tuesday |
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| a bit like San Francisco? a cable car |
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| next to the tower during our walk |
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| a small school band performing by the tower |
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| the audience |
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| tomorrow we are headed back!! Here we are at the Sultan's Harem--a large mirror |
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