Still in Istanbul today, although it's a free day so we get to do whatever we like today, I ran into Tall Ryan as I was heading off to breakfast and he said he and Meg were going to be heading to the Grand Bazaar which is basically a massive market containing about 4,000 individual shops. I joined up with them both and we made our way to the market. Arriving around 9:30am the markets looked rather empty, I put that down to the fact that it was Ramadan and they po...

This morning will be a guided walking tour of some of the local sites in Istanbul, I got downstairs after waking, showering and skipping breakfast as I'm still trying to get over this flu and needed the extra sleep, can't really speak much today as my throat is really sore when I talk. Upon arriving downstairs I found that Te tour was going to be a few hours and we weren't likely to stop for a break at all, it's coincidently the first day of Ramadan which means t...

Another long day of travel, but by now 5 hours actually doesn't seem that long, especially when we aren't the ones driving, today we head from Gallipoli to Istanbul. We will also get Conner and Imogen back today who will be flying back from Egypt. After a long day of driving we arrived in Istanbul. A very large city with officially about 14 million people living near in it, unofficially it's closer to 17 million. After arriving and checking into our hotel we head...

Another day on the road, today we head to Gallipoli, Turkey, this means we will be crossing the boarder so chances are it'll take a little bit of time to cross. A few sore and tired heads this morning as there were a few out quite late. I'm still not feeling the best today either, but mines not from drinking too much, but I'll have a few hours to sleep on bus if all goes well so hopefully I'll get better as we go. We headed off and after a couple of hours made it...