Turkish Bath or Haman is a must do thing when in Turkey. Dressed only in shirts and a bikini top for the ladies and just a towel for the men, we are taken to a large marble room. It's hot! The idea is that you lay on these heated marble slabs for 40 minutes to release all the toxins from your body. The slabs are so hot it's difficult to lay on them. After 40 minutes we go into a room with the masseuse . For the next 20 minutes we are scrub completely , covered in...

Left Singapore 1.50am . Flight was good, we both managed to get a few hours sleep. Arrived Istanbul at 7.30 am Turkish time (10 hour flight). The driver for our transfer introduced himself as Genghis Khan and then proceeded to assure us he was not a terrorist and we were safe! Funny man. Drive to the hotel was eventful, some streets are no wider than our footpaths but they still seem to get cars and buses and trams along them albeit with a fair degree of the use...