Day Thirteen. Istanbul, Turkey Day two in Istanbul, and we love the place. Hearing the call to prayer around the city sounds really nice, but it also helps that we are in a friendly country. We quickly ate breakfast and headed down the gangway. We had not booked a tour for the day so we were excited at the prospect of exploring the city just the way we wanted to. We caught a shuttle bus from the ship to the port exit and had the most wonderful driver. It was ...

Day Twelve. Istanbul, Turkey Overnight we travelled up the Dardenell Straight, past Gallipoli towards Istanbul. The only city in the world built on two continents (Europe & Asia) it is home to around 17 million people. We had some lunch and docked at 1pm. We had booked a tour for the afternoon and were on the bus by 1:20pm. The bus drove us to our first stop which was the Hippodrome and Blue Mosque. The Hippodrome was a great stadium of 80,000 people where...