Big Hagia Sofia
Mosaic in the Hagia Sofia.
Floor cracked from eons of feet in the Hagia Sofia.
Blue Mosque seen through a couple of mausoleums to Ottoman Sultans.
Big Hagia Sofia (where the surface layer has cracked you can see the original decoration)
Karin in the Aya Sofia.
The Blue Mosque from the Hagia Sofia.
Let there be dance!
On the site of the Hypodrome.
Blue Mosque.
Aya Sofia from Blue Mosque courtyard.
Hagia Sofia.
Blue Mosque with birds.
View from our guesthouse.
Admiring the view from our guesthouse.
An evening stroll.
Fisherman on the bridge.
Taksim
Statue in Taksim.
Some embassy is through those gates.
Karin and a row of Doner places (there were several dozen)
The upper facades of several of the Doner places.
Doner places.
Bambi. Appetizing.
Picnic. At this point women in headscarves were still a bit of anovelty.
Karin looking classy.
Wandering around.
Fisherman and the bridge again. New Mosque on left (it's 500 years old)
500 year old New Mosque.
500 year old New Mosque's steps.
View.
Looking across the Golden Horn.
Buying a headscarf for Karin.
Music Festival.
Music festival.
I'm blue.
We're purple.
We're blue.
Istanbul.
The Harem.
The shitter in the Harem.
Ben dramatizing being a concubine in the Harem.
Brent, strangely reading his guidebook.
Tulips.
Topkapi.
Karin in the midst of losing it.
Art we saw that I liked.
Our guesthouse.
Karin in our guesthouse.
This is pretty self-explanatory.
The bazaar.
The spice bazaar.
Walk home from seeing Spiderman 3.
Breakfast.
Cruising around on ferries.
Awesome guy with balloons.
That significant island that was or will be mentioned at some point. Again, ask me about it some time.
Some bus terminal that we walked past.
Aya Sofia and Blue Mosque behind tanker.
That island has significance. Ask me about it some time.
Sailors.
Fisherman with balloons.
Little boy afraid of flapping fish.
ON the ferry.
Walking home form the ferry.
Taksim.
Windowframe breaking, falling on Brent.
Karin.
Ben.
Ben's hair.
Hassan et al.
The cistern.
Some other huge mosque.
Guy washing his feet.
Cat and huge mosque.
Woman with gun.
Street in Istanbul.
