So our time in the south of Turkey has come to an end. The sleepy fishing village of Turgatries long behind us. We said our farewells to the farm and headed to the big smoke!
We boarded an overnight coach from Turgatries to Istanbul main station and from there a second coach to Taksim Square. All coaches in Turkey are pretty good apparently, they have movies and headphones with your own screen and can change channel. So we just chose the company with the lowest fair and were happy with our choice. Lili was very excited running around the inside of the coach for the first 4 hours until finally she calmed down and slept around 11pm, the coach made several stops picking up more passengers and picking up fuel. The fuel stop was very peculiar, basically a service station just for coaches and their passengers, with thousands of Turkish people running around serving tea and stretching their legs. The bathroom you had to pay for 1.5 TL, which was a surprise to me. Eventually after 13 hours on the coach and no sleep, we arrived into Istanbul bus station (6.30 am). which was pretty easy to use and we found a great cafe selling buns and drinks, surprisingly cheaply. The first we really saw of Istanbul came thereafter with our journey to Taksim Square, it was Monday morning traffic at 7.30 and it was heavy, cars, buses trucks all trying to get to work.
We boarded an overnight coach from Turgatries to Istanbul main station and from there a second coach to Taksim Square. All coaches in Turkey are pretty good apparently, they have movies and headphones with your own screen and can change channel. So we just chose the company with the lowest fair and were happy with our choice. Lili was very excited running around the inside of the coach for the first 4 hours until finally she calmed down and slept around 11pm, the coach made several stops picking up more passengers and picking up fuel. The fuel stop was very peculiar, basically a service station just for coaches and their passengers, with thousands of Turkish people running around serving tea and stretching their legs. The bathroom you had to pay for 1.5 TL, which was a surprise to me. Eventually after 13 hours on the coach and no sleep, we arrived into Istanbul bus station (6.30 am). which was pretty easy to use and we found a great cafe selling buns and drinks, surprisingly cheaply. The first we really saw of Istanbul came thereafter with our journey to Taksim Square, it was Monday morning traffic at 7.30 and it was heavy, cars, buses trucks all trying to get to work.
hey guys, happy to hear from you :) enjoy the ride! kisses
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