Istanbul, Tukey
Fred and I went to Istanbul for a long weekend. It's pretty huge, but you can see a lot in a long weekend. Lots and lots of people live in Istanbul.

   
 
Mosque
Big Market
Big hall of the big market
A spire
Another mosque
Busy street corner
Spire with birdsHea
Head scarf girls
The Blue Mosque
 
Spire of the Blue Mosque
Me with the Blue Mosque
Random artsy shot
Interior Blue Mosque
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Exterior Blue Mosque
Fred with Aya Sophia
Aya Sophia
In The Cistern
Very damp in the Cistern
 
 
 
On a coffee break
 
More girls with head scarves
Another mosque?
 
 
Aya Sophia Interior
(This was my favorite building.)
It's huge
And in need of repair
 
And it's really old
Like 1500 years old
Nice light, huh?
 
 
From its Christian days
Lots and lots
of girls in head scarves
 
Architecture shot
 
The water
 
Along the highway
 
Fishermen
Not sure who this is
Lots of flowers
 
This is not a painting
At a palace
I always love the audio tour
 
Our "snack"
 
Nice tiles all around
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fred only borrows my audio tour
 
 
 
The grounds
There was a bee
The gates of something
 
 
From the bridge
 
People like to fish
 
In a tower
 
 
 
Thank you Japanese woman
The tower we were in
Beautiful architecture
First Fred
Then me
Then we found a guy to take us together
 
 
A school
 
High fashion
Vampire children clothing store
Obese man clothing store
 
More Aya Sophia
 
 
I even got a snowglobe with Aya Sophia
Artsy Fred shot
Artsy Andy shot
Where were we?
Oh yeah
Turkey