A weekend in Istanbul April 6th 2014 Seeing some nice historical places in Istanbul
A while ago we went to Istanbul over a weekend. Although we have been to Istanbul before we looked forward to this trip for two reasons:
1 On the agenda was to see a few sights that we have not seen in our previous visits
2 We were going there with a good friend whose company we knew we would enjoy.
First place we went to was th ... read more
Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Istanbul Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more
We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden.
We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them.
Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are
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