Istanbul Travel Blogs - Page 8

Trip from Turkey to Romania via Bulgaria and Serbia.

Incredible country, exciting, thousands of contrasts

The flight from Pattaya took about 12 hours, including the 2 hours of wait before it took of. The whole night passed, and I managed to see 5 movies, and one documentary in that time. I have´nt watched any TV for over 5 months, so that felt kinda good actually ! and all the movies were new, and fun…

Istanbul is an unique city! You can see a very interesting mix of european and oriental culture there. *I've been to the Prince Islands, when I tried to validate the location Büyükada, which is the biggest of the Prince Islands it didn't work... So don't look at the map... it is not very correct:)

Today was our full day in Istanbul and we spent the entire day focused in the cities three main sites:  The Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia, and the Topkapi Palace.   The Blue Mosque is so named because of the rare blue tiles that were used to decorate the interior; however, only the  to…

Family's trip to Istanbul in June 2008

    Having to buy supplies for work before going to play!  The hotel on the water was simply AMAZING though.... Thank you hotel Kempenski.....  Maybe the best hotel chain ever!!!!!!!!I did a lot of fun things (blue Mosque, Haggai Sophia) but nothing as much fun as the fish …

Many people do not know this but Bert found himself a girlfriend, Betty from California. She moved in with him at home but cabin fever soon kicks in especially with me living in the house with them. So one day, without any warning, Bert took Betty off to Istanbul in search of some sweet afternoon…

     As I write this I am sitting on a toilet (with the lid down, obviously) of a guest house in Istanbul. It’s 1am and I’m almost deranged with sleep deprivation. On the roof of this building, wedged between an old Australian hippy and an American who looks like a young Cha…

I stood in the port of Istanbul for two days as part of my greece/turkey cruise. I have to say out of all the places i visited this one left one of the biggest impressions on me. The pure smell of the city, the colors and the sounds were very interesting. We were staying there during the month of r…

We were torn between coming back to Istanbul and trying to go one other place first. I think the deciding factor may have been the 11 hour night bus. We weren't really game for an extra one of those. So we headed for Istanbul. We spent the last couple of days there and they passed quite quickly. A …

Once more, the scheduled flights did not work, this time it was worse than the others, the flight Amsterdam  to Istanbul leaving the afternoon was cancelled ! These days, I'm nicely surprised when the flights are on time ;)Finally, I found a flight that would leave Geneva at 5:00 pm and arrive…

Well, there are many things to talk about and name this city which is my hometown. Keeps endless souls in it. You can feel it only when you see it closed eyes...

What a remarkable trip. A journey like this, while simple today, would have been almost impossible only twenty years ago when this part of the world was an integral part of the Soviet Union.   To travel within the USSR required a degree of planning and cooperation that left most tourists vis…

I was chosen to compete in the 'Caucasian Challenge'; a motor rally that traveled from the Balkans (Budapest, Hungary) to the Caucas Nations (Yerevan, Armenia), and many places and backroads in between. My team was sponsored by virtualtourist.com! It was truly a great adventure!!