After breakfast, we took an all day hop on hop off trolley tour of Munich. Well, that was the plan anyway. We awoke again to rain. Big rain! So we hopped on and never got off. The tour guide spoke first in German describing the sights passing by and then repeated it in English. After 45 minutes your head began to spin around and pea soup shot out of your mouth like the Exorcist in total confusion. But we saw and learned a lot. 6 - 7 million people visit Munich e...

We awoke on our last day in Istanbul at the Marriott to rain. Sweet, blessed, cool rain! A welcome treat. Another inspection of the Marriott in daylight reveals that the whole property is ringed with concrete barriers, security booths, and Blue Blazered guards who are all obviously secretly armed. On our trip to the Metro Station from Salih's house before we went to Kas we passed by the American Embassy. It sits on top of a huge hill surrounded by a very high wa...