Photos from Istanbul are posted

The Blue Mosque at night. Istanbul, Turkey

OK, one of the things I got to tick off my todo list this weekend with all the extra time I had from cancelled trips was to focus a bit on personal things that have been piling up for ages. Describing, tagging and uploading the photos I took of Istanbul last summer has been sitting there a while.

Istanbul is an absolutely spectacular city, having had empires wash over it and leave their architectural and cultural high water marks all over its seven hills. I spent two weeks there and still hadn’t scratched the surface of everything there was to see and do and that the city had to offer and would go back in a heartbeat (in fact, I’m upset my next business trip won’t have me there for a little while since I’ll actually be in Turkey).

Besides its beauty, it’s filled with friendly people, cultural riches, things to explore, adventures to be had and great food (and it’s cheap and super easy to get around to boot). If it’s not in your top five of places to go if you’ve never been, you need to move it up the list. Immediately.

Warning : I went a little snap-happy in Istanbul… and tended to take a lot of photos of architecture which completely blew me away - hey I’m from a country of little prominent architecture and igloos. Give me a break, ok ?