Read Part 1 | Part 2 Our last leg brought us to beautiful and bustling Istanbul, a city straddling two continents and teeming with history. Everything is so rich here, your senses just come alive with the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes that each corner has to offer. First stop today is the magnificent Dolmabahçe Palace along the Bosphorus. Even the outside of the palace grounds are so calm and beautiful! Walking along the wide boulevards, just imagining the sultans and their entourage arriving here after a long journey, and being welcomed home to such opulence and grandeur. Truly a ...
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Read Part 1 here In a kind of spur of the moment decision, Bak and I decided to book a new years holiday to Turkey, a place that has been on our bucket lists for the longest time. I was a bit skeptical at traveling in the middle of winter, but arriving there, everything was just breathtakingly beautiful. A humbling reminder to me that although winter is often cold and grey, if you look hard enough, you’ll find that it is a unique kind of beauty, severe and calm at the same time. This is exactly the kind of unexpected ...
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