Day 2 - Istanbul - Day of the mosques - Stevie

Day 2 – Istanbul - Day of the Mosques – Stevie

We woke up the morning, pretty early without hardly any sleep. But we still had a lot of energy so went to the roof terrace for breakfast. After that we decided to just walk towards the Mosques and see whatever the day would bring. We left the hostel and walked towards the Mosques, when it suddenly started raining like crazy! Great! We didn’t leave the Dutch weather behind.. no we took it with us! We were looking for shelter from the rain and ended up under and overhanging roof of a jewelry shop. After standing there for 15 minutes and watching the streets getting absolutely flooded, somebody from the shop came out and invited us in. The guy turned out to be Dutch. He was born in Istanbul but had spent most of life in the Netherlands. He gave us a tour of the building we had been standing in front of. In the building was a jewelry shop, and a place where they sold ceramics and carpets. In the basement of the place there was a part of an old cistern.. Will finish this after my Berlin trip!...