Slowing the pace

Hello World, we have drastically slowed our pace, we used to cross 3 countries in two days and now we stood at İstanbul for 3 nights!!! Truth to be told the turistic zone of the city can be walked in two days, we got time to get our İran visa in the morning (only valid for 10 days though, so we will have to hurry through İran), and then went to visit the northern side of the city. A couple of catalonian girls doing erasmus told us that there was a nice view of the city from "The Marmara" hotel, so we passed by Galata tower (ticket 10TL, turkish lires) and went to the roof floor of the Marmara. The view, we had to agree, was nice, but we couldn't take pictures of quality.

On our way back to the Old Town we stop at a restaurant beside the Bosforo to eat a fish sandwich. On the evening went to see the Grand Bazaar. İ think it is the best place İ have visited here, but that doesn't count much anyway. İt looks like a small underground city full and full and more full of shops, silver shops, cloth shops, cushion shops. The sellers are not as bothersome as in other places of the world, but they all know "you come from Spain".

We went back to the hostal through a market street that stands beside the Grand Bazaar. This street, like the Bazaar, it's full of shops too, but these ones are for locals, in fact, for every 200 persons walking there, only 2 or 3 were turists.

At the hostal we recognized that "our amigo" and the "amigo of our amigo" is more friendly to females than to males, Gah! That's something we can't do anythiıng about.

No ninja women stalked into our room, so the night passed without any major concern. This morning we went to "Otogar", yea, sounds like "autocar", and that's it, the central bus station of Istanbul, to get a night bus ticket to get to Capadocia...so...another one that bites the dust, the other friend of our friend who prepared a Turkish tour for us is not gonna get anything of value from us I guess. Another comission that goes down the drain, I bet that "nuestro amigo" didn't like that very much.

We spent the most of the day walking up and down through places we already have been on. Also bought a couple small pillows, we expecting many bus night trips now on, and better if we are somewhat equiped.

Now we are making some time before going into the bus that is gonna take us to Kayseri.

Good luck and good night.