Today we slept had a leisurely breakfast and then found a good spot by the pool. We had lunch on the boat then disembarked at Izmir. We walked out of the dock to be greeted by lots of Turks trying to get you into cabs or take you on tours. We finally talked to some guy who told us we had to get out of the port if all we wanted to do was go into the city. We established that there were no cabs that took 8 so we had to go in 2 and had to make sure we ended up in th...

Today we disembarked in this crazy busy city called Istanbul. We stepped out of the wharf to mad traffic, noise etc, none of us had any Turkish lire on us so we had to get some out at an ATM. We passed a shop with guns in it which entertained the boys, then a turkish lady just started yelling at this Turkish man out on the street we think it was about where she had parked her car people came out onto balconies she was so loud. Any way eventually we got on a on of...