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Mezes sampler
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Iskender kebap - spicy tomato sauce and yoghurt
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The view from our room to our balcony ...
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Dinner was unremarkable, but it started a game of looking for unique beaded lanterns
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After dinner our waiter asked, "would you like to see our ruins? down those stairs.."
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A penguin gourd lantern
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Wine by candlelight on our balcony
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The Aya Sofia!
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The Blue Mosque!
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Ready to be tourists, in front of the Blue Mosque
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At the entrance to the Blue Mosque
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Ceiling tile of the Blue Mosque
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The light and atmosphere were so beautiful in here, even the vacuum cleaner was reverent
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Inside the blue mosque
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For a moment you could forget you were jammed in with the first load off the cruiseships, but just for a moment
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On a ferry for a short ride up and around the Bosphorus
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An active shipping lane to the Black Sea
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Looking up the Bosphorus
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Ship in the Bosphorus
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Old fortifications of Istanbul
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One of many palace houses on the waterfront
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Return to see the train station
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The end of the line for the Orient Express
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Making plans
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At the Orient Express Cafe
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Detail of the Istanbul Sirkeci train station
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The Orient Express museum at the station was a small room filled with mundane memorabilia
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Dinner at Asitane: almond soup
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Sour cherry dolmas
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Minced meat and rice in a melon
