Saturday, May 31, 2008

Bosphorus Cruise

Clockwise from top left: One of the many beautiful yalis, or traditional Ottoman mansions built along the shore, that one glimpses during the cruise; This man in a suit repairing nets on the dock of Anadolu Kavagi seemed more aptly dressed to go to the office; Play of light on water reflected on the hull of a boat docked in Anadolu Kavagi; Ortakoy Camii, a pretty little mosque on the waterside that looks even more diminutive because of the Bosphorus Bridge that looms nearby.




While Jay and I were whiling the time away at Eminonu before the cruise, we bumped into Nick, a Los Angeles-based Filipino who was on his last day in Turkey. We ended up enjoying each other's company throughout the entire cruise and having a lazy lunch together at Yosun restaurant in Anadolu Kavagi (the calamari, fried mussels and grilled blue fish were all mouthwatering). That we could take pictures for each other was certainly a bonus!

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