A storm cloud over Turkey
April 27th 2011 Welcome to Istanbul... it's freezing here!
When I left off we had taken a 19 hour overland bus from Macedonia to Istanbul. We arrived early in the morning exhausted and slightly out of it. When we checked in to the Orient Hostel, we didn’t know it… but we were getting screwed over. Through a combination of getting overcharged by hostel bookers and a scummy guy working at reception (who
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