Waking up in a real bed without the sun in my eyes or the feeling of being cooked alive is luxury! I’m also clean after last night’s shower. It’ll probably be a while before I wake up like this again. We’re off to an internet café to find out where the Kazakh Embassy is in Ankara then to do the touristy thing and wander around Istanbul.
Managed to see a few big fancy Mosques but the Grand Bazaar is closed on Sundays. We also bumped into another team from Edinburgh, a pair of Aussies. They are convoying with another two teams and heading up to the Black Sea coast to find a campsite. We swapped numbers and might head up to meet them. We’ll need to get out of Istanbul first!
Just stopped at a McDonald’s on the motorway outside Istanbul after a bit of crazy drive. We got across the Ataturk bridge no problem, then got hopelessly lost trying to get on the Bosphorous Bridge, the biggest bridge I’ve ever seen, and the crossing from Europe to Asia. Eventually we got onto it by driving up a ridiculously steep road, our first first-gear corners, we saw someone’s wheel fall off on a bridge corner with no hard shoulder on the motorway, and some generally mental driving! Now we’re going to head north to meet up with the other teams.
We made it! Just spent ages driving around Akcakoca looking for the campsite the others were at, but there seems to be some kind of carnival on, roads are blocked and diverted. Eventually one of the cars came out to meet us and we followed them back.
It’s just started pouring down, so we’re hiding in the car. Haven’t put the tent up yet, so probably sleeping in the car. Didn’t expect rain like this in Turkey!
Managed to see a few big fancy Mosques but the Grand Bazaar is closed on Sundays. We also bumped into another team from Edinburgh, a pair of Aussies. They are convoying with another two teams and heading up to the Black Sea coast to find a campsite. We swapped numbers and might head up to meet them. We’ll need to get out of Istanbul first!
Just stopped at a McDonald’s on the motorway outside Istanbul after a bit of crazy drive. We got across the Ataturk bridge no problem, then got hopelessly lost trying to get on the Bosphorous Bridge, the biggest bridge I’ve ever seen, and the crossing from Europe to Asia. Eventually we got onto it by driving up a ridiculously steep road, our first first-gear corners, we saw someone’s wheel fall off on a bridge corner with no hard shoulder on the motorway, and some generally mental driving! Now we’re going to head north to meet up with the other teams.
We made it! Just spent ages driving around Akcakoca looking for the campsite the others were at, but there seems to be some kind of carnival on, roads are blocked and diverted. Eventually one of the cars came out to meet us and we followed them back.
It’s just started pouring down, so we’re hiding in the car. Haven’t put the tent up yet, so probably sleeping in the car. Didn’t expect rain like this in Turkey!
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