Istanbul by night

Here is what we see from our room’s window:

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Just got to Istanbul, got a hotel room, tomorrow we go to Topkapi Palace. More to come.

Fast forward

Yeah, work and not only got in the way of posting. It’s not something to be happy about but, while my blog is very important, my life is more important than that
So, what I did in the last almost 2 weeks, fast forward:
1. I visited Ankara (especially Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’ Mausoleum – Anit [...]

Turkey, Ankara: First day in Ankara, my cousin got a job

Finally, we woke up. I slept for 11 hours. I don’t think I slept that much in years. My cousin slept for 13 hours. This is not uncommon for him
First bad thing: no internet. It wasn’t working. But Yucel, one of my friends here, came to help and in 30-60 minutes, the most, [...]

Turkey, Ankara: The roadtrip from Bucharest, through Bulgaria

So, we finally got to Ankara. I drove 17 hours and 1200 km, through snow and rain.
We (me and my cousin) left Romania at 6am – after only 2 hours of sleep -, reached Bulgaria at 7am and started the trip through a country that scared me to death last time I drove there. This [...]