3 Oct '11

Istanbul By Bus and Boat

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Once we settled into our plush digs, we decided to explore the city in the same way I had explored London earlier in the summer- by bus and by boat. Istanbul is broken in to three major districts, all divided by water. Our hotel was in Cihangir, which is in the Beyoglu district, known for its…

2 Oct '11

Getting Witty in Istanbul

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See what I did there with that title? Set myself up for failure. Being witty on demand is harder than you might think. Go ahead. Try it. Arriving in Instabul was a shock to the senses. After a week of being pampered and catered to on our cruise, we were thrust back into the real world…

25 Sep '11

Sprinting Through Ephesus

Posted in Cruising – Turkey

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Our time in Greece was over, but that didn’t mean our cruise was. We had one more stop before disembarking in Istanbul, at the port town of Kusadasi. Our ship docking next to a behemoth one Kusadasi itself didn’t receive rave reviews- and by that I mean people refer to it as a total dump. The…