If only I knew which mosque this was. I have visited so many mosques this weekend and now I realized that I probably should have taken notes on which one I visited at which time and so on. I guess I figure it out somehow when I do some back tracking on where I’ve been this weekend.
Istanbul highly exceeded my expectations. What a nice city! Old nice houses. Small cobblestone roads. Lots of water everywhere. Mosques in every corner. Bazaars, spice markets… and I didn’t have time to visit half of the things I wanted to see.
Photography vise it was a bit so so. It’s not easy to just quickly visit a new place for three days and get great pictures. Then I’m also in a period right now that I’m not really satisfied with any picture I take for some reason. I saw this mostly as a scouting trip when it comes to photography. There are also so many sights that I wanted to see so my focus was not 100% on photographing. Overall it was a pretty cheap weekend trip so I’m sure I will go back and try to focus on just one thing to photograph.
I stayed at hotel Grand Peninsula. Very nice hotel with awesome breakfast buffet on the roof top terrace with nice view over Istanbul. Got a cheap small room in the basement for 35 euros incl. breakfast. The normal price for a single room during high season is 50 euro.
I have lived on cheap kebab from food stalls on the street for the whole weekend so my stomach is not feeling that well right now. It was cheap though and tasted delicious at the time so I think it was worth it.
Anyway, more pictures are coming as I go through them.
I had a GPS once, but an acquaintance borrowed it, and when he sent it back by mail, it disappeared on the way home. I haven’t really wanted one that badly, but after trips like yours it’s really great.
A new trick I’ve started to use though, is to actually take a picture of a sign next to the church / city / zoo-animal / what have you. It’s sometimes faster than writing down the place, date and time.
Riktigt tjusigt! Ser fram emot resten av bilderna.
Åker själv till Kina på måndag i en månad. Hoppas på en del bra bilder därifrån.
What a fantastic picture!!
I’m so jealous of all of your trips! Then again, Chris and I will be in South Africa and Mozambique for our honeymoon AND Chris just got a fish eye camera- so watch out Roger!