Istanbul 3 – 11 July 2014

Where to start – what an awesome city!

We stayed in an Airbnb apartment hosted by Mert, https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1996037. It was a very funky and clean apartment, in a convenient and hip location. Unfortunately I did not have the best start though with some serious digestion problems, I felt pretty awful. It was doubly upsetting because my friend only had three days with us, and I was sick for nearly the entire time. Why do the travel doctors we visit before leaving home insist on giving us a truckload of diarrhoea medicine, but nothing for the opposite problem?

Anyway, we loved Istanbul, a relatively cheap city for being the gateway to Europe, and so beautiful and surprisingly clean. The Mosques were breathtaking, cool bars and restaurants, very beautiful, trendy people. We loved it! I won’t spend more time writing about it, other than to say, GO to Istanbul!

PS if you have a little extra time up your sleeve, and about $40 per person, we recommend checking out Suada, a swimming pool for Turkey’s elites in the middle of the Bosphorus river. It was quite relaxing, not to mention funny watching the ‘beautiful’ people strut their stuff. http://suadaclub.com.tr/en/index.html