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Alright, so its been a while since I posted, and the first thing I should be updat­ing about is my trip to Istan­bul, but it was a while since then, I think I’d be copy­ing most of what Hora said any­ways, since we did most of these things together. Here is his post

http://halmaghi.com/2009/05/istanbul-not-constantinople/

One of the things that I did that Hora did not was the pub crawl with a bunch of the peo­ple in the Hos­tel, and it was run by some of the employ­ees. We went to Taxim, and I’ll tell you, I’ve never seen such a con­cen­tra­tion of peo­ple in one place at 2am. The streets were packed with Turks and tourists roam­ing the streets, look­ing for the best bars and clubs. One of the first bars we went to had a live band play­ing, and so we watched and drank as they played old school North Amer­i­can music.

Tell me thats not a messed up design.

Band at the first pub

The next bar we went to was sim­i­lar, it had a live band, although this next one had a lot more younger peo­ple, and more Turk­ish peo­ple for that mat­ter. There actu­ally ended up being a big brawl in the wash­room when I went to go wait in line, it was fun to see, I was right there in the mid­dle of the action.

Sec­ond pub

After­words we headed off to our first Turk­ish club, which was a lot of fun. Lots of gor­geous Turk­ish girls to talk to, a cou­ple of them talked to me first, but in Turk­ish, although I can’t blame them, I do look like a Turk (I mean, Turkey is prac­ti­cally the mid­dle spot between Iran and Italy). I couldn’t talk for too long though, because where ever the pub crawl went, I had to follow.

Over­all, it was an amaz­ing trip. Excel­lent food, lots of his­tory, beau­ti­ful women (when they are actu­ally out, which isn’t often), very cheap, and the best thing of all was that it was so much dif­fer­ent then any other city I’ve ever been to. It was so great I’m con­sid­er­ing going a sec­ond time in the sum­mer. Turkey is one place I’d def­i­nitely rec­om­mend to any­one, I have noth­ing bad to say about it.

Ital­ian jer­sey I found for 3 lira ($1.80 CAD) to replace the one I ruined. I really can’t tell that its fake.