As we booked the overnight flight to Dubai from Istanbul, avoiding spending money for hostel. Our new culture for the next 2 months, keep our spending budget low as possible! Arrived Dubai at 5.30am (it was already 21•c!) only had 2 hours sleep. Now it's something I didn't tell anyone about, we've already hired car for two days. As I know how parent aren't keen on us hiring car in the country of 5th most dangerous road, oops! We made our way to Abu Dhabi, the c...

Woke up 7am today, hoping to make the most of the day as seeing its my last day in Istanbul. I had traditional turkish breakfast, the strange looking homemade jam tasted so good! Planning the day while eating breakfast and decided to visit 6 'istanbul's famous' heritage sites: Galata Tower, Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia, Basilica Cistern, Topkapi Palace and Guyhane Park. We set off and started exploring the city of Istanbul. Galata Tower is beautiful and we went up a...

How can I start, it hasn't really hit me yet that I am actually jetting off to travelling today! Before I waffle about today, this week has been hectic, I've been working as presenter for the BBC which involves long hours this week hence why I haven't started my Christmas shopping until yesterday, oops! May I add, I haven't even started packing for my travels until 3am this morning. I was really excited for my travels, but also I was finding it quite hard as I'll...

As I mentioned, the flight was very smooth. I slept most of the time, catching up my sleep as went to bed at 4.30am this morning, yes very exhausted! Landed Istanbul all safe, collected my bags. Went to the tourist information counter and enquired about transport to my hostel, they tried to rip us off by charging us 60TL whereas we refused and went on shuttle bus instead and paid 24TL for both of us. The ride was lovely, sightseeing and went on istanbul famous br...