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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
  
Well we arrived in Istanbul right on time and were met by the hotel taxi as promised. One small snag, its snowing and quite heavy too. Because we were staying in the old town area we decided to don our cold weather gear and venture out into the Grand Bazaar. We did remember, from last years visit, that there was this rather nice pastry shop that did fresh blueberry muffins and hot chocolate, so that had to be worth a s
top on the way. The Grand Bazaar is an intriguing place, a great mass of alleyways with hundreds of shops all set up to trap the unwary. Each alleyway is given over to the same type of shops, so in one whole area you get dozens of jewellers all selling similar things, a tremendous sight, but because of this structure the traders pop out of every doorway and hustle you to come in and "just" look. You can buy leather coats, designer shirts, anoraks, glassware and porcelain, just about every conceivable thing you can think of and I feel sure that all the labels are the genuine article!!!In the evening we walked, through the snow, to the next little area of Istanbul which is renowned for its seafood restaurants. We actually went into the first of the restaurants we came to, had a very nice meal and bottle of wine, but vowed to venture further in to the whole area on the next evening
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