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Pera Palace Hotel and the Galata Tower

  This evening Randal and I picniced in our room on dark crusty bread, goat cheese, green and black olives drenched in lemon juice and it was wonderful.  Then Randal went out and got us a decadent strawberry cream thing to split but we washed…

Istanbul Sites

Sultanahmet Square

Tulips are blooming in Sultanahmet Square.
I said I wanted cooler weather.  I’m wearing a turtleneck, a wool sweater, my Sox hoodie and my heavy foul weather rain jacket.  But the sun was shining and the cold felt good.&…

Istanbul hotels

  Today we went to the Grand Bazar with Linda and Michael and it reminded me of both "the Pottery Factory" in Williamsburg, Gongbei in Zhuhai and Filene’s Basement so you get the idea.  Except there were fewer bargains to be had…

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  It’s cold but the sun is shining.  We are seeing the sites and eating too much of the wonderful food.  We plan to be in Istanbul about three more days. 
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BBC Everest tied to a wharf on Thilafushi the …

Istanbul

  Our flights to Istanbul were smooth and almost on time.  The food was the best airline food ever.  We were picked up at the airport with no problem and spent the first night in the NAZ Wooden House hotel parts of which dated back to th…

Dubai

We were loaded yesterday and it was quite impressive.  Then we were watched over by our new Ukrainian friend Nikita, a crewman on the BBC Everest who got us coffee and helped get us onto our launch in the bumpy seas.  We arrived at the Male&#…

Yippee

  Our loading time is 11 am this morning.  We are the first boat to be loaded which is good because that means we’ll be loaded some time today.  Three other boats are to be loaded after us and I really hope they get everyone on bec…

Still waiting

  The sun is shining and there is a slight breeze and we’re miserable!  We weren’t loaded Sunday, our original load day, and we weren’t loaded yesterday, our second  load date and we will NOT be loaded today.  Tomo…

Trouble in Paradise

  They have changed the order of loading…this came as a surprise after everyone had made plane, hotel, etc reservations and now half of us have to change everything!  This has been handled very poorly by the loadmaster who never bothere…

Library visit

Late yesterday afternoon we received our loading date and time.  We will be loaded 6pm this Sunday, the last boat of the day.  The rest of the boats will be loaded Monday.  Since we are scheduled as the last boat Sunday we are open to th…