Day 8 - The New Istanbul and the arrival of Ooti We are staying in the old quarter of Istanbul and Jayne and I decided to go and check out Taksim square - which is the new area where all the shopping, pubs and clubs are. We asked the guy at the reception of our hotel how far it would be to walk and he looked at us strangely and said half an hour. We weren't sure exactly how to get there so we decided to catch the tram. Luckily we did as the walk would have taken...

Day 7 - Hello Istanbul We left the house in Sellians nice and early to make the drive back to the airport, return the car and catch our flight to Istanbul. We were following the car GPS but all of a sudden we ended up on the highway going the opposite direction to the airport. Turning around on the highway is near impossible so we drove a number of extra kms til we could take one of the exits. When we were finally back on track it decided to start raining. Now t...