25 March 2016

Safely landed in Istanbul...it's dark (11:30 at night), cold and raining, and I'm sitting in a hotel bar just off Taksim Square, drinking Johnnie Walker Black, waiting for Ilgu's friend Afsin to arrive....

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26 March 2016

Slept on the Asian side of the Bosporus, in Anatolia. Ferry ride back to Europe in the morning, exploring what I could with the few hours remaining before my visa expired…