The whole time in Turkey we were thinking we were pretty clever because we would always buy two adult bus tickets, and then be offered the free back row of seats by some obliging steward on the bus. The back row of seats, it seemed, were always unoccupied, and the three of us would comfortably spread out and relax. Not so this time on our way to Istanbul! It was a full bus and our luck had run out. For the first time since we began this trip, we did a long haul bus ride with Phoebe (who is getting bigger by the day) sitting on our laps. We knew accommodation in Istanbul was expensive, and while we were hunting around trying to find something suitable, a man who ran a hostel offered us two dorm
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