Moving on

After a great week we packed up to leave Greece. The owner of the apartment left us a gift of a small ceramic statue which Kath baggsied. We flew to Istanbul and caught the shuttle bus to Taksim Square. Then we had a bit of fun locating the apartment - finally we located it in an authentically turkish area; i.e. no one speaks English! Our next challenge was shopping in the local supermarket and Google Translate came to the rescue again. We are 4 floors up so away from traffic noise but not, regrettably from the Ezan (call to prayer) at the local mosque. Very generous host has left us a bottle of wine, 3 bottles of water, a jar of marshmallows, a bowl of chocolates, 3 packets of biscuits, 2 cartons of juice and a bowl of apples!