Julie on the Bosphorus

Every morning we took the ferry from where I live on the Asian side of Istanbul over to Asia. I still think that is so cool and will never get tired of saying - Let's go to Europe for the afternoon.

Julie in Istanbul

November 9th 2011
My friend Julie was my first visitor here in Istanbul. It was so wonderful to see her and to have somebody from home come visit. I had three days of vacation November 7-9 for Bayram and am so lucky that she was up for traveling so far for such a short trip. Even though Julie was only here for five days we saw a lot of the city. I had already seen quite a few of the tourist sights, but not all ... read more

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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

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