Another beautiful day - warm and clear and in the 70s. I started it off by walking down to Sultanahmet, which is a large square right in front of the Blue Mosque. The square was actually built as a Roman race track, and has two huge obelisks. One is actually from Egypt and has a base that shows off King Theodosius (which was cool to me at least because I remember studying it at DU). Then I walked over to the church/mosque that's the entire reason I came to Istanbul in the first place: the Hagia Sophia, or the Church of the Holy Wisdow. This is an absolutely massive building. It was first built in the 6th Century AD, and was the largest Christian building in the world for nearly 1,000 years! It felt like stepping ... read more