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Hagia Sophia: Church, Mosque, Museum
Hagia Sophia It appears regularly in movies, usually east-meets-west spy thrillers or Dan Brown-esque conspiracies where a certain Christian-Muslim-secular mystery and intrigue is required. The [Read More…]
Hagia Sophia It appears regularly in movies, usually east-meets-west spy thrillers or Dan Brown-esque conspiracies where a certain Christian-Muslim-secular mystery and intrigue is required. The [Read More…]
The Nuruosmaniye Mosque Once we got to Istanbul, it took us a few days to go into a mosque. It wasn’t for lack of opportunity: [Read More…]
The Topkapi Palace is a sprawling complex that was the royal residence of the sultans of the Ottoman Empire for 400 years from the mid [Read More…]
An Entrance to the Grand Bazaar One of the most famous attractions of Istanbul is the Grand Bazaar, and it’s been at (or near) the [Read More…]
Quick, name the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World. And no cheating with Wikipedia! Chances are you could get about three, maybe four: the Great [Read More…]
Bodrum’s Crusader Castle Bodrum, in ancient times, was known as Halicarnassus. If this rings a bell for you, we’ll remind you why in tomorrow’s blog. [Read More…]
Chuck and Lori, Your Intrepid Travel Blog Hosts We hope you’ve enjoyed our blogs the last few days describing our gulet cruise on the Turkish [Read More…]
Day 6 (Thursday) – We woke up in the harbor near G?kçe and had an early breakfast. We were pulling out of the harbor by [Read More…]
Day 5 (Wednesday) – We were underway before 7:00am and pulled into a harbor near the village of Gökçe a few minutes later. This was excursion [Read More…]
Day 3 (Monday) – Despite having been awakened in the middle of the night by the necessity to reposition our boat, we woke up wide-eyed [Read More…]