Turkey Day 12

Arrived in Istanbul around 7:10 at Haydarpasa Station, a beautiful old train station on the Asian side of the city.  We exited this building and immediately to the left was the ferry to the european side of the city.

It is a very beautiful ride to the other side of the city.

This is a view of Suleymaniye Mosque what is supposed to be the most important mosque in the city.

We got off at Eminonu at the end of Galata Bridge.   We decided to walk along the tram way to Sultanahmet and back to the hotel, probably about 30 minutes walk.  We left our bags at the hotel, we had a message that Eunice had tried to call us so we got ahold of her and decided on our mtg. place.  We ended up arriving almost exactly at 10 where we thought we were supposed to be but no Eunice.  Bought a phone card and then tried to call, took about 4 attempts before I had to ask how to dial the number.  She wanted us to be at the metro station, but we had gone to the train station, because that was the only one that was on our map.  She figured out what had happened and headed to the train station and we finally met and headed to Starbucks and talked for about an hour.

We ended up walking back past the train station then to the ferry dock and caught a ferry to Kadikoy, and from there we got another ferry that stopped at Haydarapasa, then back to Eminou.  We were back in Eminonu just in time for lunch so we stopped and had one of the famous fish sandwiches.

We walked back to the hotel with a brief stop at Sirkeci station to ask about the Dervish show there.  the man at the information booth said that it was that night and not Sunday and that it was 35 TL, or at a Hamam for 40TL, and since we had already seen it and weren't sure if we would be able to take pictures we passed.

We ended up crashing at the hotel and slept for a little over an hour.  shin turned on the TV and Desperate Housewives was on in English.  After I pulled myself away from the TV we headed out for dinner, and we ended up stopping at a small restaurant along the street up to the Blue Mosque.  Had a variety of mezes and mixed grill it was way more than we really needed to eat but it was really good and came to 60 TL not a bad price.  We ended up0 just heading back to the hotel and I was asleep by 9, I couldn't keep my eyes open.