Istanbul

Sept 30, Oct 1 & 2

Friday Sept 30
Slept in, as we didn't get to Kaylee's until about midnight.  What a great location where she lives.  The Bosphorus just down the road, Emirgin Park a couple of minutes away, quiet street.

Spent ages just sitting watching the crazy traffic and people, drinking coffee and relaxing.

Saturday Oct 1
Headed off on a walk with a group of expats that Kaylee has linked up with.  Had to leave at 6.15am to get the our pickup point so up very early.
It was with a group of about 25 people, half of them Turkish, and the rest from Holland, Canada, Mexico, US, etc.  A really interesting group of people and amazing to see bush relatively close to Istanbul. It was about a 2 hour bus trip to get there.

Didn't get home again til about 11pm!

Sunday Oct 2
Headed out to breakfast at one of Kaylee's favourite breakfast places.

Then left her in peace to do some school work while we went to check out Emirgan Park, right next to where she lives.  Weekends are the favourite place for newly weds to have their wedding photos.  Amazing.  Would have seen at least 50 brides.

This is done with plants

There's 5 brides in this photo!!

Took some other touristy photos

Had to wait our turn to get this photo

A fantastic playground

Gardeners preparing beds for the spring bulbs

Had another walk along the Bosphorus.  A beautiful day again so lots and lots of people about.

A muslim woman fishing in her full outfit

Then went back and got Kaylee and headed out to see a sunset over Istanbul.  Unbelievable the crowds.

Crossed the Bosphorus by ferry to get home.