Riding along the coast

Sun, sun, sun again after so many grey days! Nergis texted me and offered to spend the afternoon together. She couldn't host me because her flat was being renovated. We met at the big Akmerkez Mall and decided to drive in her car up north along the shores of the Bosphorus. It was a wonderful idea!
First she took me to a restaurant at the university campus. From here we had the most splendid view across the green sea enjoying some tasty dısh she had chosen for us.
Then on for an hour along the coast up north towards the Black Sea, passing palaces and beautiful houses facing the Marmara Sea.
In the Sadberk museum, a private collection of turkish pottery, we spent more than an hour admiring the beautiful pieces. My wish to travel around all those ancient places and see the archeological sıtes grew a lot. I have to come back and do this trip around world heritage places ın Turkey and hopefully all along the mediterranean!
In the evening we called Huriser to tell her I would not be back for dinner, and went to Arnavutkoy to have some delicious fish dishes in one of the most famous restaurants of Istanbul: Adem Baba. Small place, but great kitchen!
Nergis invited me to come with her and visit some friends, but I had agreed on with Huriser to be back in the evening, and didn't want to stay in another part of the city for the night. So a taxi took me back to Ulus, just in time to help my hosts carrying in all the Thursday afternoon shopping.
Then a lazy evening at home talking about ways of life and raizing chidren in Germany and Turkey until after midnight. Today the sky ıs dark, there's quite some rain, and the temeperature dropped almost 10 degrees. A bit of an ugly time to go out to do sightseeing, but I would hate to leave Istanbul without having seen the Hagia Sophia from inside. So that's the first task of the day.
The second is to buy tickets for the Sunday night train from Istanbul to Thessaloniki. The week passed so fast! :(
But for now I still enjoy this great city. If you want to as well, click here!