We got up bright and early today for breakfast, which is unusual for us! When we got up to the breakfast room, the plates were set up, with a hard boiled egg, some cucumber, tomato, olives, cheese and bread. Darren was disappointed, and didn't want it, (it did look a bit average) so we decided we'd go out and find something else instead. I had a shower and quickly looked up some directions before we headed out. We walked around the streets for a while looking at the restaurants in the area, but most of them weren't serving any sort of lunch food yet (only average looking breakfast food), so we wandered for a while. At one place a guy came to talk to us as we were looking at a menu, and told us to go sit inside, then as we walked in, we were told off by another guy. Apparently they weren't open yet, and when we looked around, the other guy was nowhere to be seen.... Weird. So we kept wandering, and ended up at a place called Cafe Lokum where we got a wrap each, I got a coffee and Darren got an apple tea. We watched some very cute almost newborn kittens playing in the grass next to us, then when mummy cat came home, they all had a feed then went off for a sleep. So cute! With our drinks, we got a little Lokum, or Turkish Delight, on the side (like some places at home put biscuits) and they were absolutely delicious! It was like nothing I've ever tasted! It was so much better than any type of Turkish Delight I've ever come across, I could eat them all day! Yum yum yummy! After lunch we headed off, bought a transport card and jumped on a tram to make our way to the Egyptian Embassy to get a tourist visa. After taking another tram further in, we got off, and instead of using another tariff on our card, decided to walk to the metro stop which wasn't far away. We realised why most people catch the short train ride there after huffing and puffing our way up a mega steep hill to get there! We went down into the metro and jumped on a train to our next destination. We got off, and after orienting myself with my trusty map, walked down towards the embassy. It was a lot further than it looked on be map and we ended up walking another half hour or so along to the street it was on, where we passed a metro stop that was one before the one we got off. That would've been easier! We walked along the street it was supposed to be on, but struggled to find it. We asked a group of people who were hanging around a building wearing suits, and they told us in very broken English that it wasn't there! The embassy up the street was for Kuwait!! So we walked back along the street, still looking for it, very confused. A gardener tried to help, but had no English, then eventually a girl told us that it used to be there, but has moved to a place called Bebek, which was another part of Istanbul! After all that! So annoying! So we wandered back towards the main street wondering what to do, and trying to figure out how to get to Bebek, then decided to just jump in a taxi to take us there. The driver had no English, so didn't understand we wanted the Egyptian Consulate, so just dropped us off in the Main Street of Bebek, which was a suburb by the sea. We walked along a bit, looking for somewhere with wifi so we could look it up, but came across a hotel, so asked there instead. The guy there told us it was the next building, so we walked up the street a bit longer and still couldn't find it! Eventually we headed back to where we'd seen a Starbucks and went in for a drink and used their wifi to look it up. It must have been a recent move, because even google didn't know it'd changed! We eventually found an address, and it looked like it was on the street we were looking, just a bit further than we'd gone. We felt a bit better after our drinks anyway! So we walked along the street and finally came across the place, which was like a palace! We found the gate and buzzed, then a guy came to the gate, who didn't speak English. He understood 'visa', but we didn't understand his reply, so he got someone who spoke English to come and talk to us. He told us it was closed. They only do visa applications until midday, and we would have to come back on Monday! Annoying!!! But then he told us to wait for a bit, went inside for a while, and came back to tell us that because we were Australian, we could just go to Cairo and buy our visa at the airport before passport control! So after all that, and spending all day looking for the place, we didn't even have to go there! So annoying, but I was relieved that we knew what was going on, as all the websites were pretty ambiguous in what we needed to do, saying we had to go to an Egyptian Consulate to apply for a visa. So at a bit of a loss at what to do in Bebek, we wandered through a small park and along the marina, where there was a good view of a few different sections of Istanbul, then after a wander, we decided to just work out our way back. I saw a bus that said Taksim on the front, so we went to get on, but apparently it came FROM Taksim and wasn't going TO Taksim! Argh! So we crossed the street and walked up to another bus stop, and a bus came along that said Kabatas, which was even better, because we could catch a tram directly from there, so we jumped on. When we got to Kabatas, we bought a fresh juice each, one pomegranate and one orange, which were extremely pulpy and kind of bitter, then got on the tram back to Sultanahmet. We walked back to our hostel, and, very over it, sat on the terrace and shared a bag of chips before going for a lie down. When we woke up we had a chat to a couple of Americans from our room, Dan and Mindy, who were just about to head out to a tea and hookah bar and invited us along with them. So we walked up the street and they took us into this really cool little place, filled with couches and amazing lamps hung up everywhere, and packed with locals, not tourists, all drinking tea and smoking hookahs (or nargiles, as they're called here). We ordered some apple tea and an apple flavored nargile, and chilled out having a smoke and drinking our tea and having a really good chat and a laugh with Dan and Mindy. We stayed for ages just chatting, and had a really nice relaxing night after our hectic day! Our waiter didn't have any English, and a couple of Turkish guys on the next table helped translate a couple of times, as well as teaching us how to say thank you in Turkish, (teşekkür ederim) which is a really *******e to remember for some reason! Darren ended up recording the guy saying it on his phone so we could listen back to it later! Over the evening we had an apple tea, which is the best one we've had yet, a normal tea, and a lemon tea, which was also delicious! Eventually we decided to head back, so we payed our bill and headed back towards the hostel. We stopped at a kebab shop as Dan and Mindy hadn't had any dinner yet, so they grabbed a takeaway dönner kebab, and Darren ordered one as well, but cancelled when he saw how big they were, as he was only looking for a snack! We went back to the hostel after that and chilled in the dorm for a bit chatting with Dan and Mindy, then after a while we fell asleep to the sound of Darren's guitar playing.