Bizarre!

So a mad taxi ride from the hotel delivers me to the old town where I find the Blue Mosque beautifully restored but not very, well, Blue...Hagia Sophia covered in scaffolding outside and with four massive steel towers inside and no access to the ground floor anyway and actual visiting replaced by a multi media experience so loud it makes your ears bleed. At least the bazaar presented a less bizarre experience by just being full of fakes and hustlers.....No, I have not enjoyed Istanbul.Læs mere