#istanbul Archives • Page 2 of 2 • Folksy Travel by Bill Smale

Investigating the Blue Mosque in Istanbul is one of the top things on the list of tourist attractions you really need to see. It is free to enter and you might really enjoy just finding a place to sit and looking at all the beautiful artwork and calligraphy for which mosques are famous. You can visit here now with Bill Smale Adventures.

Nighttime view in Istanbul — At night time the lighting is pretty dramatic

Gate script — Beautiful script on the gate

Scripted circle in blue mosque — Arabic can certainly be used very artistically

Arab script — Look how the script is used here

Beautiful window in blue mosque — A beautiful window

The inside lighting — Proof I was inside also

Next to the praying area — The circle area with lights is where believers come to pray

Center dome — Looking up the center dome

Investigating touristS — People just keep floating in

Walking around fascinating Istanbul on my first two daysI thought was going to be a little bit complicated but the transport system, once you figure it out, is actually pretty easy so it helps with the walking tour. You can easily get to the attractions you want by yourself if you have time. Of course you want to go to the main attractions but just walking around people will talk to you trying to get you to buy things but in a pleasant way and if you could pass for someone who lives here people will ask you for directions or some kind of assistance. so you can just take your time and just relax, stop and have a cup of coffee, get something to eat, etc.

Istanbul city walls — You can see the old city walls in different parts of Istanbul

Walking at the Bosphorus strait — This is the Bosphorus strait where all the black sea ships need to pass. And you can see the cats are guarding the city. People here love cats and wild they seem to be everywhere walking around they are clean and they generally behave themselves but they get fed by everybody

Seabream Dinner — Seabream with nothing but part of an orange for sauce so not much character. But it was good quality food. I wasn’t quite sure about that quarter of an onion but it was actually much sweeter than most onions, almost as sweet as a Maui onion.

The restaurant by the strait — This was the restaurant which seems to be frequented by local people

Cats control the cars — It seems pretty clear cats are the preferred automobile alarm system and of course they control car parking

Walking street view — Nice buildings in the area nearSuktanahmet

Old building — Maybe not worth refurbishing

Building art — A local art display on a building

German fountain in Istanbul — German fountain near the blue mosque

A restaurant I want to try — I wanted to go here in the Fatih area of town but it opened up 30 minutes later than when I wanted to eat

UYGHUR/chinese food — So I tried this one instead because it was open and recommended. This is fried noodles with vegetables YAKISOBA (焼きそば). This is in the UYGHUR section of the city where half of the restaurants are considered UYGHUR cuisine and the other half are presenting themselves as Chinese food restaurants. The people at this restaurant seem to be a mixture of Chinese and tutkic peoples features while others looked just Turkic. The language spoken didn’t seem to be all Chinese but it was a language I’ve never heard. The food was very good.

Coffee and pastry — After the noodle lunch I came to this coffee shop for a cup of coffee and a pastry which was not sweet and had cheese in the middle. It was very tasty.

Farting building — You can see the large black tube coming out of the green mesh on the lower left side which attracted my attention and I was thinking to myself maybe it is so the building can fart.

The fish market — In the morning I went to this fish market to eat something at a highly recommended restaurant right there but it wasn’t open. But of course the cats were in control and under control, if you can figure out what that means.

Exchanged €400 — I exchanged €400 and look what I got.

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Investigating the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.

Walking around fascinating Istanbul with Bill Smale Adventures.

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