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Visiting a Turkish Bath in Istanbul
Blog: GoBackpacking - 15 December 2009
This is where the experience became an authentic roll through hundreds of years of Turkish history.Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier)
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Top 3 Travel Hugs
Blog: REID ON TRAVEL - 10 December 2009
Thursday is for HuggersDo we hug more when we travel? I mean, hug people you've known for 10 minutes and will never see again? I've had some memorable ones -- by teachers on train platforms, grandparents on Polish balconies, drunk telephone line workers near a crocodile-filled pond in the Yucatan. But I've narrowed it down to my most memorable trio:
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dancing the Halay in front of a Doner shop at Sultan Ahmet
Blog: Adventures of Shubhangi - 28 November 2009
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In the belly of Istanbul
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 22 November 2009
We often think of the subterranean world which lies under all cities as a mere necessity for everyday life. Either that or an excellent setting for a horror film.
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Round & round & round...
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 21 November 2009
After nearly 2 decades on the road, I have become a little jaded. It's somewhat of a challenge for me to get excited about seeing another mosque or cathedral or fort or whatever. At the end of the day, it's just another church, etc. I do my best to find things unique to a country, things you can't find other places.
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Lady on the Bosphorus
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
I haven't been to Turkey since I was 14. My eighth grade class took a cruise through Greece and stopped in Kusadasi for a day. We ran around Ephesus, tried our bargaining skills at a bazaar, and it goes without saying that we got a factory tour at a rug shop that belonged to our guide's "cousin".
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Rockin’ all over the world
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 3 October 2009
I’ve kind of had the same night for 3 in a row now and am getting a bit bored by it, so I’m happy to be moving on today. There was one difference from previous night’s though as they had a belly dancer for a short while at the hostel. I reckon she was silicon enhanced [...]
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Double lagered
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 1 October 2009
I missed breakfast this morning, what kind of hour is 09:30 to suspend it? Facists. Though I love the roof garden, another thing I don’t like about this hostel is that they don’t allow you to bring your own beer in but neither do they subsidise the price of their own (it’s around £2.50 a pint). [...]
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The furthest point east
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 30 September 2009
So while waiting to check-in we checked out The Blue Mosque. Most epic and impressive I must say, not as blue as I expected mind. After that it was The Grand Bazaar. It didn’t do that much for me really but it is worth seeing if only for it’s sheer massiveness. In my tired and [...]
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Istanbul, Istanbul I am coming
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 29 September 2009
I’ve had a proper lazy morning just dicking about on the internet in preparation for tonight’s overnight bus to Istanbul. I was considering a trek that’s at least a 10k round trip into the hills to a monastery, but it’s supposed to be pretty difficult to find the trail and I basically can’t be arsed. [...]
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When Toronto meets Istanbul
Blog: EZGuler - 12 September 2009
Just like a carefully woven, ornate Turkish kilim, Toronto has been blessed with the colourful woolen threads of diversity. People from all over the world collide as they call this zestfully dynamic city of lights their home. In a sense, to know this city, is to know the world. So much of our daily life, our reality and what we love about our city parallel what other people three thousand kilometers away from here love and enjoy about their own cities. In a way, we are experiencing a different version of the same moments.
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Istanbul, Turkey: it's Europe, but not as we know it
Blog: 501 Places - 4 September 2009
Having avoided the "East meets West" headline, let's move on. If you suddenly found yourself in the middle of Istanbul, you could be forgiven for initially mistaking it for Cairo or Damascus, or any of the great cities of the Arab world.
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When East Meets West, Istanbul Is The Literal Definition
Blog: EZGuler - 26 August 2009
It's not easy to cast my biased aside. Afterall, I did spend six healthy and happy years in the centre of the city everyone, for some reason, regardless of the fall of the Roman Empire, still calls Constantinople. It's a nostalgia thing, I imagine. However, the Ottomans weren't the only ones who conquered Istanbul and made it their own. I can count on my two hands the number of people I know who have arrived in the pristine, shiny new Ataturk Airport, wide-eyed and hopeful that they would survive to tell truly amazing stories about their trip to Istanbul.
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Sights To See and Things To Do in Istanbul
Blog: Brilliant Tips Travel Blog - 9 July 2009
Byzantium, Nova Roma, Tsargrad, Miklagård, Constantinople, Istanbul. It is a city that has known many names and which straddles two continents. It has been a city of emperors. It was the center of Holy Rome and of the Eastern Empire that lasted a thousand years after the Christian world fractured in half leaving the western half in fragments and foundering through a time we now call the dark ages. The Turks swept out of Central Asia in a storm of swords, spears and horses to conquer Arab nations and swallow ...
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Tarihi Sultanahmet Koftecisi, Istanbul
Blog: An American in London - 21 June 2009
I’d intended to do only one more post on Istanbul (a wrap-up of the good and bad meals we had there), but in looking over my notes and photos from the trip, I thought the Tarihi Sultanahmet Koftecisi deserved a dedicated shout-out. Left to my own devices, I would’ve avoided the place. It was (1) listed [...]
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Furran Balikcilik, Karakoy Fish Market, Istanbul
Blog: An American in London - 14 June 2009
My favorite cheap dining experience in Istanbul was at a seriously no-frills balik (fish) place along the water, at the back of the Karakoy Fish Market. Although I have a business card telling me the place’s name is Furran Balikcilik, there’s no signage anywhere, so you’d have to recognize it by the bright red, [...]
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Muzede Changa, Istanbul
Blog: An American in London - 10 June 2009
Two weeks ago, Jon and I were in Istanbul for the bank holiday. The sites, shopping and food were amazing, but our favorite high-end meal by a wide margin was at Muzede Changa, where Peter Gordon (of Providores fame) is consulting chef. Located inside the Sakip Sabanci Museum in Emirgan, a leafy, ritzy part of [...]
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Istanbul not Constantinople
Blog: MatthewGain.com - 17 April 2009
Apparently 12.5 million people live in Istanbul. Did you know that? I sure as hell didn’t, but according to Wikipedia it is true. So in essence the place is big, bloody big and extends far beyond where we have visited in our three days here. Where we are staying, where most backpackers stay it seems, is [...]
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Istanbul, Turkey
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 4 December 2008
While in Turkey we often got the question why Istanbul? Why Turkey? The best answer we usually had was "Why not?".
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