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Wow! It's absolutely spectacular! Another great puzzle and reveal!

Next door to https://www.travelgumbo.com/blo...4#384386029277779564 May 1st 2014 Picture of the day !

Nice photo PHeymont, and mentioning my name just adds that extra nice touch.

Originally Posted by Ottoman: Nice photo PHeymont, and mentioning my name just adds that extra nice touch. Didn't know that you owned an empire?!? Next time YOU buy the drinks.

Spectacular!

I remember that restaurant fondly. A woman on her own was seated with us and we became instant friends, still in touch after 12 years.

I loved the Grand Bazaar, but preferred the jewelry to the tee shirts.

Are you taking it personally yet?

I hope you packed your thermal underwear

Yes, but not our boots. All predictions in advance were for a dusting to an inch!

Hagia Sophia is surely one of the most widely-recognized buildings on Earth, which is amazing considering that the world is so populated with other buildings modeled on it or even directly copied from it.

The best-known active mosque in Istanbul, the Sultan Ahmet Mosque, popularly known as the Blue Mosque, stands next door to Hagia Sophia, which it replaced as the mosque of the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire. It was built in the early 17th century, on...

A visit to fabled Topkapi, imperial and administrative center of the Ottoman Empire for 400 years

On our first day in Istanbul, after arriving at 4:30 on a Sunday morning and heading straight to a nap we went for a walk to reconnoiter the neighborhood. What a neighborhood! Within 5 to 10 minutes easy walk we passed the Topkapi Palace, the massive Hagia Sophia, a large open square and came, face on, with the incredible Blue Mosque.