28th May, Rain rain go away... Headed out for the blue mosque this morning in the hope that been a Monday and raining there will be less tourists. I think I was right as it was fairly quiet a couple of small groups. the outside of the building is beautiful to look at and the inside only gets better. There are six large minarets and a large central dome supported by several smaller domes. The courtyard is the same size as the mosque with a small fountain in the ...

27th May, Slept so heavy after yesterday walking everywhere. Talk with a family at breakfast about catching the ferry and they said not much point going to Asian side as little to see just suburbs. My plan was to go to ortakoy by ferry. Walked around at the waters edge looking at the different ports and asked a few people and there didn't seem to be a ferry to the port I wanted to go to. So got the one to the port on the same European side of the bosphorus just...

26th May, Decided that today was a good day to get the ferry to the end of the golden horn and then walk back to the hotel. Headed out for the ferry terminal...got held up trying to cross the road for ages, there are pedestrian crossing lights but they take a long time to change. Arrived at the water front between two different small ferry ports. Couldn't see any obvious name signs so went to the left. That was wrong got there are looked around realized this wa...

25th May, After breakfast headed out to the seraglio point area with the Topkapi palace as the destination. Arrived just after opening, I was told to get there as soon as possible due to the late crowds that this place attracts. Was a short line up for ticket and once inside I paid the extra to get an audio guide. The audio guide was a bit pointless as all it really did was read out the same thing that was written in the signs anyway and there was so many little...

May 24th Wasn't woken by the early morning pray calls as I thought I would be. There are hundreds of minarets around the city which call out up to five times a day I think. When out yesterday I heard the lunch time and late evening calls but when in the hotel I can't hear them. Breakfast served from the top floor of the hotel which overlook the entrance of the golden horn and the galata bridge and tower. Was picked up from the hotel for the day trip tour to B...