whitter45
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Anyone been
Over there next week with work so will have some free time. Any suggestions of what yo see. Blue mosque keeps popping up when searching
[Edited on 05-02-2015 by whitter45]
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Tiger
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Look out for bomb chuckers and Muslims with oversize vests.
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Gary
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Ring in sick
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whitter45
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It's like São Paulo, pretty big and mental
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whitter45
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Just had most of the day out in Istanbul and presently surprised
Apart from every few hours some geezer gets on the massive speakers on the mosques and starts shouting for 20mins  across the City
On a serious note though the mosques are very impressive espcially Sophia
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Ben G
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Those cunts woke me up when I went to Alanya at 4am every fucking day.
[Edited on 04-02-2015 by Ben G]
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whitter45
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some pictures. I will keep updating them. considering I did not have an SLR some have come out quite well
So having completed some major project for Hilton Hotels, some of us were invited to the Hilton Engineers Conference which wa held at one of their latest hotels to be finished - Bomonti Istanbul. Fabulous hotel
I ended up with some free time so explored the city, walked over 8 miles throughout the one day
Hilton Hotel
 DSCF5942 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
Room with a view - iphone pic
 Untitled by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
Each day a gift was left in your room
 DSCF5945 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
Blue Mosque
 DSCF5780 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
 DSCF5817 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
Inside
 DSCF5787 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
Sophia Museum - used to be a Mosque. Truly breathtaking inside - much better than the blue mosque. Renovation works are being completed so initially I was a little disappointed but the scaffolding actually works better to try and show the sheer size of the place
 DSCF5800 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
 DSCF5801 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
 DSCF5806 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
 DSCF5813 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
On the way to the Grand Bazaar market - in which I got lost completely
 DSCF5901 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
And the best find of the day - Basilica Cistern. The enlarged cistern provided a water filtration system for the Great Palace of Constantinople and other buildings on the First Hill, and continued to provide water to the Topkapi Palace after the Ottoman conquest in 1453 and into modern times
 DSCF5935 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
I will upload more later as I visited a few other places including the palace etc
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baza31
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As if your in Istanbul and there isn't one image of a donner kebab
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random dav
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Nice Makro half back bucket seats in the first pic.
Some impressive architecture, the cistern looks ace.
WRLFC !
Project cars
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whitter45
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few more
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 DSCF5830 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
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 DSCF5851 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
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 DSCF5864 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
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 DSCF5873 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
17. got completely lost in here - I mean completely
 DSCF5874 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
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 DSCF5877 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
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 DSCF5883 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
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 DSCF5897 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
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 DSCF5924 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
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 DSCF5939 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
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