On board the ferry to Asia!
Great pastries and very friendly staff
They were very impressed with Lisa
Waiting in line at the Turkish Bathhouse
Getting clean, really clean for the first time in weeks
At the Turkish barber... goodbye beard
Ryan quite happy with the straight razor shave
Clean shaven and styled up... very strange
Harbor on the sea of Marmara
Fishermen returning to port
Iskender Kebap being carved for us
Delicious Iskender Kebap - Famous food of northwest Turkey. Thinly cut lamb covered in tomato sauce over pieces of pide bread with melted sheep butter and fresh yogurt.
Fresh and very hot puff pastry cig boreck filled with ground meat and mugs of a churned yogurt drink called ayrani
The big storm that kept us in Bandirma...
Buying fish from the gypsy street vendors
Tarik and Mustafa preparing the fish to grill
Eat them with your hands by the dozens. Very tasty
A sampling of different types of baklava for dessert
Saying goodbye to new friends and boarding the ferry to Istanbul
Lashed to the rail with the other cargo
Grand Bazaar in Istanbul... you could spend days in here
Istanbul... not Constantinople
Buying roast corn and chestnuts for a night stroll through Istanbul
The Hagia Sophia. Once a basilica, then a mosque, now a museum. Looking pretty good for being close to
1,700 years old!
Shopping for a good deal on saffron in the old Istanbul Spice Market
Prepping the bikes for travel
With the couplers on the frame removed, amazingly the bikes break down pretty small!
A passport, a dry bag and tickets to the other side of the world.
Happy to be Down Under
HAHA< all the turkish kids in Austria have the same hairstyle that ryan has in the picture immediately following his shave and "style". So funny, but you're missing the little rat-tail.. or the mini-mullet, that would make it complete.
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