Saturday, October 29, 2011

Day 1 Istanbul

After a typical, long flight (16 hours) from SFO to Istanbul, via JFK, our group assembled to take the bus to our hotel.  Nice hotel, we are on the sixth floor; good exercise.  After dinner at the hotel, Gloria and I went exploring.  We are next to a town square with a long walking street close by with hundreds of restaurants, vendors and shops and thousands of people strolling on a Saturday night.

Winter Decorations are already ujp

Lots of these guys around selling giant roasted hazelnuts.

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We wanted to walk around not just to see people, but also to check out a place to eat tomorrow night; we are on our own for dinner.  We think we found it.  This diner was packed with locals for the gyros or doner.  On the right is a huge stack of lamp they bar-b-q, slicing off bits then combining the meat with vegies in a tortilla like wrapping.  These are famous all over the world under different names.  We have probably eaten them in four different countries; we can never pass them up!

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