We have spent the last three days as tourists in this amazing city.The weather also turned up trumps as it has been hot each day.We visited a number of sites including the grand bazaar where Jackie bought her outfit for Iran as did all the other girls in the trip. We also went to the blue mosque, the Topkia Palace and the Haghia Sofia, these had an Interesting history and fantastic architecture. As this period is a holiday time, it was very busy, but even so, it...

We left our campsite in Bulgaria, after a goodbye from a troupe of singing ladies set up by the campsite owners, they were in traditional dress and we all took part in dancing with them. we cross the border into Turkey, which was relatively painless for us and therefore only took about an hour. As we travel towards Istanbul, the country is very similar to the UK, however there are no Churches, but plenty of Mosques and national flags of Turkey. We stop overnight ...