Early wake up and bussed to airport with 30 people from our cruise. How can there be almost no one we knew from the prior 2 weeks?
Out of Bucharest on Turkish Air complete with meal for only a 1 hour flight to the ginormous Istanbul airport, 18 million people and you can just feel it throb with life!
After checking in to our new lovely hotel we immediately went shopping for some snacks and also found a travel bag (been looking for one). There is just every kind of person on the street and wonderful bargains and fun stuff.
Then Wendy went for a Turkish bath at Cinili Hamam, in operation since 1540. WOW!!!!! I've had spas before but this was very different; lots of water, lots of soap, lots of scrubbing. Men and women were separate, but otherwise maybe not as modest as I thought it would be. (See me for details.)Read more
March 31 in Turkey ⋅ ⛅ 54 °F