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Day 10 - The grand Bazaar
My fellow friends, today I make my video at a completely different location with more light. I am impressed by my own creativity myself.
It is day 10, my next to last (?) day in Istanbul, and one of the days when I was least active.
The reason wasn't that I had no more ideas - I wanted to go down to the city - but my problem was that I didn't eat enough.
I didn't think that this would have so much influence but it really had without joking.
I walked about 50 meters to the bus stop and were so exhausted that I rather went home than proceeded on my way.
I buyed some food at the supermarket next to the bus stop and I think it was tasty bread and butter.
You wouldn't believe how tasty bread and butter can be if you hadn't eaten enough before. Extra tasty bread and butter.
But after three slices of bread with butter you won't want to eat anymore of it for the next days - that's only my experience, of course.
I succeeded in going down to the city after I had eaten something and got my reservation for the night train next day.
And I went to the grand bazaar. It's quite interesting there. A huge place, unbelievably hot and very high air humidity,
but it looks very nice. Many ornaments on the roof and the walls.
And the bars right beneath the roof you can see quite well here because I only filmed the roof ...
... that reminded my very much of Assassin's Creed. I don't know if you now that when Altair jumps ... around ... there ...
Okay, that wasn't too exciting. In any case it strengthens my thesis - because I did not intend to go there - ...
that you can walk around in Istanbul and you'll see something interesting - at least, if you are in Sultanahmet.
Oh, and I wanted to talk about turkish busses, meaning: Busses in Istanbul.
There are a lot of them. You have a number with two digits, like 48, but then you also have a, b, c, etc. of that line.
And all of them are going in to different directions, so you really have to pay attention which bus you take.
Because you don't even have time tables at the bus stops. Sometimes there are plans showing the bus lines, ...
but you don't know when they come and the information from the internet is also incorrect.
Basically you only know that the bus leaves once every hour. So you go to a bus stop and wait.
I didn't find a better way. I just could go to a bus stop and wait. And sometimes I was at a final station with lots of busses
- I always used this stations from there on because eventually I knew where the bus stopped there -
but when you are there the first time you won't know where the bus is you want to take. Because there are about 20 busses
and if you don't find the right one he leaves without you. They are reckless there.
What is nice though: They stop for you if you are running and waving. So basically you can get on the bus anywhere in Istanbul
Once I nearly missed my bus, but as I waved he stopped for me. That was nice. There aren't only normal busses but also metro-busses.
They have there own streets and I never used them. The other busses are minibusses. They mainly go to the center starting in the suburbs of Istanbul.
The price is according to the distance travelled, while you always pay 1 L and 50 K (0,75 Euro) for the normal busses.
You also can buy an "Akbil", which costs 7 L and you can load money on it so you won't have to use coins.
It is lika a small microchip you put on the reader and then the money is paid automatically. It is cheaper also.
Anyway: Don't count on the public transportation in Istanbul, at least not that it is on time - well, there is no "on time" without timetables.
So: You better have some time for that. You have to keep cool. You can also take a cab, which is not too expensive ...
... but they are far more expensive than the public transportation system because that is really cheap.
And that was my video for today. See you next week!