A GRAND BIZARRE DAY OUT

Its getting a bit late now and feeling the effects of a long day out. So, to make it faster I'll just upload some pictures from the day.

This is from last night and the Whirling Dervish doing his stuff. The music was good but not sure  about ..........

Doing the Bosphorus thing 

A bus doing a high wire act over the Bosphorus 

A new Istanbul is rising


Shortly after leaving the boat I stumbled into the bazaar. Quite a shock after the comparative peace of the cruise.

The underpass leading to the Grand Bazaar 

Just one of the many hallways full of colour, smells and people 

A beautiful arrangement of spices in the Spice Bazaar

Not sure what he's saying, but no doubt it involved 'good price for you' or  'ship it home for you madam' 

Finally, near the top of the bazaar area, just before I escaped back to sanity.

There is just one other thing I happened upon on my way back towards the Blue Mosque. It was a traditional performance of an Ottoman band. I have some good video of it but I omitted to take some stills. Very rousing stuff which they did to make the boys go to war. Never mind, I'll put a video up when I get back to the big computer.  

Bon Appetit