The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul

Chris and I left Europe to go to Asia for lunch today. A simple 20 minute boat ride across the Bosphorus sea on a ferry for $3. When we were en route, admiring the view of old Istanbul, a man approached us with an accent and explained that he was a surgeon on holidays and his destination was the Florence nightingale museum, the original hospital of Constantinople. This is where nurses treated injured soldiers during WW1. It just so happens that my Great Grandmoth...

The New Mosque in Istanbul is only 400 years old. Still looking beautiful.

It's Turkey time! We landed safely in Istanbul and have settled into our two bedroom apartment in Besiktas, on the Bosphorus sea. Today we hit the local transit, a bus and a street tram, for an adventure to Sultanamet. Here we visited the famous Aya Sophia, a museum that was once a Christian church and then a mosque built in the year 537AD. It is a stunning building with Incredible mosaics of Jesus and Mary and some of the Muslim symbols which were lit by chandel...

In front of the Blue Mosque