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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
 
When we first arrived at the hotel we had picked up a couple of brochures on tourist things to do. One offer was a full day trip up the Bosphorous and included lunch for 80 dollars each. Now we had taken a good look at the ferry services from Eminonou and discovered that you could get a return ferry ticket to the Black Sea area for 6 million TL each (£2.40). The trip lasted 6 hours in total, but included a stop of 1 1/2 hours at the last village before the Black Sea. The ferry works its way up the Bosphorous, cro
ssing from village to village, Europe to Asia, and passing under the suspension bridge which also links Europe to Asia. A nice lazy way to see some of the other areas around Istanbul and some of the lovely properties on the edge of the Bosphorous, it was also amazing how very busy this waterway is, there were some very large ships passing through and these must compete with the flow of ferries, small fishing boats and yachts etc. in the summer months.The 1 1/2 hour stop was nicely timed for lunch, so we decided, as it was a little cold close to the water, to use the time usefully in one of the village seafood restaurants. They served us up a Blue fish, a local fresh Bosphorous fish, which looked and tasted very much like a sea bream, proceeded by deep fried mussels and calamari, together with the bottle of wine, £20 the lot, with the coffee and liquor on the house. Ummmmm 80 dollars each, I think not.
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