Turkiye 2023: On Our Own for The Afternoon
The first day of guided tour found us with a free afternoon to do as we please. Since we knew way beforehand that this afternoon would be free, we thought it best to cruise the Bosphorus in the day time, since we had kinda saw it in the cloak of darkness via a Bosphorus cruise on our first full day here. However, I don't remember seeing a daytime cruise online (I may have been looking in the wrong directions here), so we just decided to take the commuter ferry from the Eminonu where our hotel is to the end of the line for this ferry. I don't remember what station it was where we alit. And to our surprise in the same ferry was a tour mate doing the same thing we were doing for the day. Later on, we explored this side of the city on foot, eventually getting a taste of the grilled corn sold on the streets. It has been planned to watch the sunset along the Bosphorus in one of the restaurants under the bridge. The line of restaurants under the bridge carry a m...