1 Zestienhoven Airport (now known as Rotterdam/The Hague Airport). This is our plane with destination Istanbul.
2 The first night we spent at Neverland (on Bogazkesen Cd). The other nights, you could find us 150 meters down the road, at Cheers Down.
3 This was the backyard of Neverland.
4 This is Bogazkesen Cd.
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19 Entrance to Topkapi Palace. Very quiet at this moment. But when we wanted to go thru this gate on wednesday, there were a lot of people. And it took us 20 minutes to get thru.
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21 This was a part of the Hippodrome of Constantinople.
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24 Inside Yerebatin Sarnici.
25 Inside Yerebatin Sarnici.
26 Inside Yerebatin Sarnici.
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28 Inside Yerebatin Sarnici.
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30 Inside Yerebatin Sarnici.
31 Inside Yerebatin Sarnici.
32 Entrance of Yerebatin Sarnici.
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36 The Blue Mosque. There was a long queue outsight to get in. So we did this on wednesday, including the 45 - 60 minutes long queue.
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42 Busy shopping street leading to Taksim Square. Missed nothing at the end.
43 Our hostel for the other 3 nights. On the left a bakkery and on the right a tea house with home made sandwiches. Very handy.
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45 There is always something in scaffolding, just like in 2002.
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59 We arrived at August 3rd and we will leave on August 7th.
60 One of the entrances to the Grand Bazaar.
61 This is not the Blue Mosque. This was a Mosque near Ragip Gumuspala CD (next to the Bosporus) and it could have been Yeni Cami Mosque.
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63 We took the ferry to Uskudar Iskelesi. That is not to the Fenerbahce side.
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73 This is the ferry entrance to the Besiktas side of Istanbul.
74 This is the ferry back. We spent about one hour on the asian side of Istanbul.
75 Somewhere over there is the Taksim Square.
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78 Just behind the Mosque, there was the Besiktas Stadium. The new one is beign build on the same place.
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86 We had breakfast or lunch but no diner at this Kebab King. This was at Kirazli metrostation. From Sirkeci by tram to Kirazli. From there by metro via Ikitelli Sanayi to Olimpiyat. That is Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadium.
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112 Inside the Blue Mosque. Today is Wednesday.
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124 This could be the ground of Fenerbahce. Feyenoord beat Fenerbahce by 2-0 in 2002. And that was more a hell then tonight. But Besiktas give it a good try.
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135 With the bus from City Centre to the Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadium. It took about 75 minutes to take approx 300 Feyenoord supporters to the ground.
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153 Feyenoord lost in Rotterdam 1-2 to Besiktas. Here it was Besiktas 3 Feyenoord 1. Europe League Play off is next for Feyenoord.
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