Wednesday - Day 8: Flight home
8 AM
We get up and take a luxurious morning washing ritual: using up all the soaps and oils, a full bath (400-500 liter) and just taking everything possible out of the room (like Ross in Friends haha) before heading downstairs and plundering the buffet once more. The staff had given up all effort to be friendlyor helpful and gave us angry glares. Their way of telling us that young students aren't welcome in a five star hotel that charges 350 euro pp per night but we didn't care. At the breakfast table we decided each could do what they pleased in the morning and that we'd meet up again at 11 AM to pack our bags and check out of the hotel.
I decided to visit the Old Bazaar again and buy some souvenirs for the people back home. Mainly buying ansicht cards I also bought these two pieces of jewellery below for two of my female friends. They were affordable and I thought they would've like it.
I wander some more around the city and I end up at the old Hippodrome where I sit down for a while and try to grasp the centuries that have come and gone in this place. This beacon of christianity for over a millenium, the most beautiful mosques that had arisen over the centuries after the conquest of Constantinople by good old Mehmet Fatih. Truly a fascinating place and I hope to return again in the future to discover more of its Byzantine history, which was limited during my 7 day trip.
Not sure what else I could write about here. I feel I've said all I had to say on this topic Some closing remarks in Turkish
Senin sabırın ve iyilik.
Thank you once again for your patience, rep and comments This log was started on May 1 2011 and is now finished on October 2 2011 so that's a pretty long time. Please consider taking a look at my two new logs I've started.
Egypt
Rome