I totally freaked out before the trip. It just complicated things. True, I haven't traveled solo for a while. But I should only be more poised, prepared and relaxed with time. I guess I overwhelmed by myself with too much information. Nowadays with all the travel sites, blogs, reviews and homepages of almost every city, bus company, restaurant, hotel you can find on a guidebook. In the old days, a guidebook was pretty much all the info I had, everything else I just had to play by ear, or ask around once I was there. For example, I gathered all the information about how to get to Sultanahmet from the airport, copied and pasted them and printed it out: step-by-step instruction with photos at every turns thanks so some bloggers who actually documented their transportation to
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