2023 current information on public transportation in Istanbul, how to get and use Istanbulkart, ferries and trains.
Seeing Istanbul for the first time? Use my itinerary for an introduction to this exciting city.
I'm providing some maps to accompny my suggested Istanbul itinerary as well as other posts about the city.
As I wrote when I started this blog, after my years in the countryside of Virginia and after the first year-plus of Covid isolation and…
In my post "Sign Language," I wrote of a very friendly hotel cleaner. That was just one of many friendly encounters in Türkiye. The most…
Seriously. I did wonder ... after so many years living in the Virginia countryside, would I take to a city as huge as Istanbul? Would…
I'll keep adding to these tidbits of travel info gleaned from experience. Feel free to ask questions in comments, if you are traveling somewhere I've…
Fatih is the district of Istanbul with the famous historic sites most tourists seek first: Aya Sophia, Topkapi, the Blue Mosque, the Cistern. It's the…
First hamami experience, with a Turkish friend I had skipped the public baths in Budapest because the weather was uninspiring and I was busy enough…
I mentioned in an earlier post that this trip is a new experience for me, that of traveling where I don't speak the language. I…
After checking into my Istanbul hotel, I was ready to post that I was on the Socks Tour. It was comical: at my second stop…
Starting from Istanbul, and all the rest is yet to be decided. I'd like to spend time in Izmir and see some coastal towns south…