Our second day in Istanbul was sunny and beautiful so we decided to take a 1.5-hour cruise on the Bosphorus. You start where it meets the Sea of Marmara, cruise up to the Black Sea, then turn around and come back. One side of the Bosphorus is the European side and the other is the Asian side of Istanbul. Here are some pics of the European coast. Just FYI, Istanbul is enormous. There are 17 million people living there and the sprawl seems to go on forever:
Palace:
Here is how the Turks drink their tea:
Castle:
Bridge:
Wait for it ...
This barge almost ran us over! The Sea of Marmara and the Bosphorus are packed with barges. I wish we'd gotten a picture of it. You could just stand on the coast of the Sea of Marmara, looking out at the water, and have the horizon filled with barges.
Blurry haunted house:
Lighthouse. There's a story to this lighthouse ... something like the guy who owned it was told that his daughter would die young so he locked her in this lighthouse and then somebody broke in and killed her anyway. Don't I tell a good story?
Süleymaniye mosque. The second largest in Istanbul (I thought it was the largest but wikipedia says it's the second largest so who knows).
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