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| That evening Elif and I met Nur and Basale for dinner at the Fillzer Cafe. There specialty is Turkish meatballs and they were wonderful. Turkish people naturally share their food, tasting each others orders, and it was all wonderful. Just across from the Fillzer Cafe was another restaurant on an island in the Bosphorous, shown here, the Maiden's Tower (I am pretty sure I have the name wrong again) which you get to via boat. |
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| The next day (Saturday), we took another minivan to Uskudar and met Nur and her brother Niyozi. Then we took the ferry to Kabatas on the European side. All the buses have card readers to deduct your fare from the card (discounting transfers to other buses, but not multiple riders on the same bus, very clever indeed). You also pay your fare on ferries the same way as shown in this video. There is a characteristic beep that comes from the reader when it deducts the fare that became ever so familiar. This was a municipal ferry, but as there wasn't that many travelers from Uskudar to Kabatas, it was a smaller ferry that didn't run that often. Below is a picture of Basale along with another of the group, Niyozi, Nur, Basale, and me. |
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| We then walked to the Eyup Sultan Mosque and from there walked up through the Eyup Cemetery on the side of the hill (quite good exercise). In Turkey, the cemetery plots belong to a family and they are reused so that your remains are finally mixed with your parents, grandparents, children, etc.. I like that idea more than taking up a plot of land for myself for all time. |
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| We had lunch at the restaurant above and it was very good. I tried many new foods (of course). |
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| Here is Elif having some Turkish scrambled eggs which is commonly eaten with bread and has many nice vegetables and spices with it. Yummy. |
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This page was last updated on March 15, 2012.
