Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....

Joan and I are preparing to go over to Istanbul for a few days. We leave on the 7 a.m. flight tomorrow morning and have booked a hotel in the middle of the old town, near the Blue Mosque and The Grand Bazaar. The real reason for going over is the big boat show which is on in Istanbul at the moment, although I suppose that Joan might want to do a little "window" shopping!  We have never really lost our interest in boats from the days we lived in Holland, who knows one day and a big lottery win we might just indulge again.I have during the last couple of days, made some climbing frames to go along the dividing wall and to encourage the bougainvillaea to form a sort of hedge. The frames are around 2 meters tall and the plants around 20 centimetres, but with the growing season due to commence over here soon, we should get a nice colourful hedge and it will form a nice backdrop to the pool. Well that's the theory anyway. There should be some nice pics after the weekend, weather permitting and something fresh to put in the diary