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Toward Topkapi from the hotel
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Our destination - Adalar - the islands
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The pink-haired lady of Burgazada
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Breakfast on Buyukada
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On this car-free island, you put your purchases in the basket and a boy bicycles it to your home
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Typical Buyukada street
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There was a string of buggies going out to the monastery
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A quieter lane
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The baker comes to you
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The grocer's
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The view I'd climbed for - towards Asia
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Now to the south
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Agia Yorgi, atop Buyukada's second hill, is successor to the 6th century monastery
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Bearing candles
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Going down doesn't look so painful
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Departing Buyukada iskele
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Buyukada's fish restaurant row, east of the pier
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Buyukada, west of the pier
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St. George's monastery from the ferry back to Istanbul
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This was great while it lasted...
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Heybeliada -- I believe
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Passing Kadikoy's Haydarpasha train station
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Sultan Ahmet in the late afternoon sun
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Coming into Kabitas, south of the first Bosphorus bridge
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Dolmabache mosque and palace
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Our captain watches us depart
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Selling nuts and corn on the cob for the ferry ride
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Sahil yolu evening traffic passing Nusretiye Camii
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Do not leave your cat! This is not the municipality's shelter.
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Street cats and dogs live reasonably well
