Woohoo! Nice pics, NeMo! And you have the same photo camera as I do
And finally, some pics from Turkey. I put them on facebook a while ago, and already posted them in megatherion.
The Elizabeth and Jack totem.
At the seaside.
The inner garder of Topkapı Sarayı (Topkapı Palace). Breathtaking view.
Topkapı Sarayı again.
I'm very sorry I couldn't photograph the best exhibits at the Topkapı, because we weren't allowed to: the treasury. 4 halls full of beautifully worked jewels, and ever-day objects transformed into art pieces. The mother of all exhibits was a 86 karat diamond (imagine a diamond egg), set in a golden plate and surrounded by 12 extra diamonds (imagine quail diamond eggs), in front of which Jack took his hat off (the one I'm wearing in the last pic) and placed it on his chest
Besides the Topkapı Sarayı, I visited the Galata Tower, placed in the Taksim Square. In the same area, we visited Beyoğlu Street. It's a very famous shopping site, and it's got a historical tram, which is lots of fun to ride! Especially when people try to hang to it from the move
Further reading
here.
I also saw Hagia Sofia and the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (also known as Blue Mosque), but we couldn't visit them. One of the most hilarious sites we visited was the
Basilica Cistern. Worth reading the article, it's got some nicer pics than those I could have provided
Of course I couldn't have missed the Grand Bazaar, which I visited with Jack's mother. I'll take a pic of the birthday gift I bought for my mother there. The most striking thing about the bazaar is that every salesman is a %@&P(O* poliglot. They went from Turkish to English to Spanish with the speed of light
In order to get to the Bazaar, we had to cross continents by boat, which was exactly as an enormous bus, with departure and arrival hours and such.
I almost forgot Beyoğlu Street. It's a very famous shopping site, and it's got a historical tram, which is lots of fun to ride! Especially when people try to hang to it from the move
Useless mentioning that I got faaat in Istanbul. Damn Turkish people know how to eat *drooling* It would be worth moving up to Istanbul only for the food, even if it wasn't so beautiful and big and animated! And even if Jack wasn't living there, of course
I bought a magnet collection. Most of them are drawing presenting the Turkish high-lights (historical sites as the one I mentioned, the eye, one of the bridges from Asia to Europe), but there's one that reads "I left my heart in Istanbul". Which couldn't apply better to my case
