As the summer approaches, I'm beginning to busily put together plans for the family. Of course, it's plunged me into my photos of last summer's holiday. We spent 4 glorious weeks in Istanbul, with a nice stop on Mykonos on the way home. We chose Istanbul as we wanted our American-raised kids to be exposed to more Islamic culture than they find in the US. We stayed in an awesome apartment with a view of the water that we found on Otalo.com, which search all the vacation rental sites. We've stopped staying in hotels and have rented apartments on our holidays recently - it gives everyone more space, we meet more locals, and it's actually less expensive! We kept everyone happy by setting a limit of one tourist attractions per day, and spent the rest of
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