So Istanbul is amazing. I am completely enamored with it. The water, the wind, the climate, the trees, the mosques, and the people. Everything is just perfect. The circumstances by which we got here, though, were quite imperfect. Our bus from Bucharest left at about 3.30 pm on the 20th and it was supposed to arrive at about 6 or 7 am on the 21st in Istanbul. It arrived, however, at about 3.30 am on the 21st. Mind you, this was after I hadn't peed for around 15 hours because I was too scared to pee at the, literally, squat-and-piss-in-a-hole-in-the-ground rest stops that the bus stopped at. So we arrive in Turkey and the driver takes our bags off the bus and tells us this is where we get off. We have no place to stay,
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