Day 2
We hopped on a boat tour that took us along the Sea of Marmara early this morning (around 10) just barely making the boat. Lindsay paid as I ran and grabbed a couple Simits for the boat ride. It zig zaged along the way as we got amazing views of the country side and our boat dodged tankers coming through the Marmara on their way to the Mediterranean. The boat took us to four or five different ports and at the second to last stop that would have been at an old fort at the mouth of the water passage splitting Istanbul, the captain made the decision that the fog was now toooo thick to cross the passage. Didn't look that thick to me though granite a cruise liner did appeared out of now where. So keeping with our motto of rolling with the punches we headed on shore to explore the small fishing village we had been dumped at. It was amazing. We headed through the village in search of a lunch spot, stopping quickly to purchase some honey comb. Beckoned to a restaurant we approached with the mindset of just looking at the menu, not being able to read anything, we decided just to go for it, and glad we did. Starting off with Efes, a turkish beer we also got a seafood crepe that was actually an egg dish with shrimp, octopus, mushrooms and a tomato based sauce, also a pickled root vegetable of some sort, fried muscles and finally a HOT chile pepper spread that was very good but soo spicy. The restaurant had an amazing panoramic ocean view so naturally we took our time and ordered a few more Efes. After lunch we did some more exploring, wondering random backstreets and examining the unique architecture. We picked up some more Turkish Delight and headed down to the water front picking a nice bench in the sun and relaxed until the boat came back. Our simple three hour boat tour ended up taking around seven hours and adding a couple additional hours getting lost traversing back to Shannons apartment it was an all day excursion. All in all a great second day here in Instanbul.
We hopped on a boat tour that took us along the Sea of Marmara early this morning (around 10) just barely making the boat. Lindsay paid as I ran and grabbed a couple Simits for the boat ride. It zig zaged along the way as we got amazing views of the country side and our boat dodged tankers coming through the Marmara on their way to the Mediterranean. The boat took us to four or five different ports and at the second to last stop that would have been at an old fort at the mouth of the water passage splitting Istanbul, the captain made the decision that the fog was now toooo thick to cross the passage. Didn't look that thick to me though granite a cruise liner did appeared out of now where. So keeping with our motto of rolling with the punches we headed on shore to explore the small fishing village we had been dumped at. It was amazing. We headed through the village in search of a lunch spot, stopping quickly to purchase some honey comb. Beckoned to a restaurant we approached with the mindset of just looking at the menu, not being able to read anything, we decided just to go for it, and glad we did. Starting off with Efes, a turkish beer we also got a seafood crepe that was actually an egg dish with shrimp, octopus, mushrooms and a tomato based sauce, also a pickled root vegetable of some sort, fried muscles and finally a HOT chile pepper spread that was very good but soo spicy. The restaurant had an amazing panoramic ocean view so naturally we took our time and ordered a few more Efes. After lunch we did some more exploring, wondering random backstreets and examining the unique architecture. We picked up some more Turkish Delight and headed down to the water front picking a nice bench in the sun and relaxed until the boat came back. Our simple three hour boat tour ended up taking around seven hours and adding a couple additional hours getting lost traversing back to Shannons apartment it was an all day excursion. All in all a great second day here in Instanbul.
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