Istanbul

And so to Istanbul, our final stop on our long journey from Mongolia. It felt like a huge relief to get here but no peace for the wicked. The train we'd hoped to get from Ankara sold out, meaning we ended up spending 10 hours on a bus from Goreme. And having decided Turkey would be the best place to get the pesky toothache seen to (it is the home of Turkey teeth after all) our time there got somewhat disrupted by Elli having a wisdom tooth pulled out, blowing her face up to twice its normal size and forcing her to eat ice cream for several days, but she has eaten enough chicken kebabs by this point to last a lifetime.

In between all of that, we enjoyed a bit of downtime in a digital nomad co-working space, wandering around Kadikoy enjoying the crowds and the food, playing count the number of people who've just had a hair transplant (a lot) and finally crossing the Bosphorus to Europe on the ferry. Goodbye Asia - this has been quite the journey.Baca lagi