Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Istanbul

Istanbul April 22-May 5,2009
Another late night arrival in a new city with no plans other than to
wait until morning to attempt to make any! ;) It's worth noting that
this was my second attempt to fly from UAU to Turkey... missed the
first flight then waited two weeks to try again as I had been strongly
considering staying longer anyways. Funny how the low cost airline
thought a 2 day wait for the next flight would be a hassle. Gotta love
traveling without a schedule. The visa for Turkey is puchased at the
airport on arrival ( I did at least check ahead on that): Canadians
60usd 45 euro Norway 60usd 40 euro everyone else 20usd Nice huh... kind
of insulting. Something to do with Canada passing a bill a while ago
now officially recognizing the Turkish history of Armenian Genocide...

Istanbul has some great sights and good tourist amenities. A suprising
number of people get food poisoning though!

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