My boyfriend and I spent a week staying in a pension in the Old City and methodically going to all the museums, and then I spent a week at a brand-new university in the middle of nowhere doing conference-y stuff. My photos are almost all "cool thing in a museum", while my boyfriend's are more scenic:
Things that were awesome: the Ibrahim Pasha museum, a pavilion near the Archaeological Museum with tiled ceilings, the Byzantine mosaics, taking the ferry up the Bosphorus (a family shared some cherries with us), having dinner on a rooftop while watching the petted Siamese in a shop below. Things that were uncomfortable: I couldn't wander around by myself unless I concentrated on never making eye contact (way too many people interested in picking me up/ selling me carpets), and I lost a day of the conference to food poisoning .
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Things that were awesome: the Ibrahim Pasha museum, a pavilion near the Archaeological Museum with tiled ceilings, the Byzantine mosaics, taking the ferry up the Bosphorus (a family shared some cherries with us), having dinner on a rooftop while watching the petted Siamese in a shop below. Things that were uncomfortable: I couldn't wander around by myself unless I concentrated on never making eye contact (way too many people interested in picking me up/ selling me carpets), and I lost a day of the conference to food poisoning .