Istanbul
December 19th 2008 Well we finally made it .. Istanbul. We were starting to get a little tired of eastern Europe and have been looking forward to this for a couple weeks. There are few cities like Istanbul, it's at the crossroads between the East and the West and it's history is unmatched.
To get here we took an overnight bus from Sofia. That was an adventure unto itself. The bus pulls up to the border at about 2
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