Turkey day 1

Today we explored the historic European peninsula, and by that I mean EVERYTHING. We have done 30,000 steps. We have seen the blue mosque, Haggia Sophia, basilica cistern, the hippodrome, the golden horn of Istanbul (the harbour), the grand bazaar, we have eaten Turkish dumplings, chicken doner, Shish kebab, Turkish coffee and tea and been extremely overstimulated!!!!

It’s been amazing, one thing I will note here is that when thousands of sweaty tourists take their shoes off on a carpet, the smell of feet is rather prominent. I enjoyed dressing extremely modestly even though it is completely different to what I’m used to and even though we saw Medusa’s lair jack didn’t turn to stone, that has got to be a good sign!!!!

Here’s some pictures and videos, if jack has any cool landscape shots he’ll add a post aswell. (He is so good at taking photos of buildings and food, photos of people though, he still needs some work….)Read more