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| Along the highway toward the ferry I had a chance to get a picture of the train tracks which had paralleled the highway. This was for local commuter trains, yet another form of public transportation. Above the tracks transition from ground level to underground for the last little bit to the subway. When I got close to the ferry I observed that there were two forms of ferries across the Bosphorous, private express ferries by Turyol and municipal ferries like those shown here. Go figure. This ferry made a stop before Kadikoy at the train station on the Asian side. I must have used this ferry in my previous visit. That evening I went to a supermarket (below) and got apples, orange juice, and cookies. All most reasonably priced. |
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| The next day I met Elif for lunch and we went back to Kadikoy and met her friend Lale. We went to Moda, a section along the coast that had a nice resort feeling. We had tea overlooking the bosphorous and then went to a restaurant for Kampir, really a baked potato with cheese and other fillings, just mushroom in my case. It was yummy and I was good and only half (it was huge so that was not really very hard). The other half was my lunch for the next day. However, we seem to have left my guide book at the place where we had tea, so the next morning I walked back to retrieve it. I hadn't paid much attention to how to get there, but just followed the coast there. I used my Droid to translate my request for the book (wifi at the guest house) and it worked great. I got my guide book and was on my way. Along the way back I noticed they had exercise equipment which was being used by municipal workers on break (apparently). Then I was back to Eminonu and walked toward the Fatih district to visit the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, the nominal headquarters for all the Eastern Orthodox Christian Churches. I tried to avoid the highway (too noisy and boring) and the local steets were wider with an interesting misture of old and new. |
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| The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate is in a compound off a minor street (above). The interior is quite nicely finished with some relatively new construction. There was a very nice little garden with impressive pavement decorated with colored pebbles placed in the contrete for a very nice effect. The church itself is also open to visitors. |
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