Once in a while, you find yourself walking around an ancient city of stunning architechture and mosques with intriguing history. As you walk by you’re drawn to the ambience of the teahouses , the smell of spices filles your senses and kind of leaves you hungry for more knowlage of the city. Theres nothing more thrilling than exploring a city like Istanbul, you could reseach forever and a day, and you would still not know the half of it. The spires and domes from the mosques and anchient minarets filles the shylines with an exotic siluette. The light blues, greys and whites of the city blends together perfectly with the…

Our last day in Istanbul Turkey we were debating where to have dinner, so I started googeling and checking online and I found a recomendation from instagram. The old Ottoman. And boy, you were right! This place is nothing short of amazing. Even though its a full size restaurant the atmosphere feels kind of like you are in someones home, its warm and welcoming. The staff is so kind and friendly, and so helpful with their recomdations of food and wines. We ended up ordering to much food as always, somehow I always tend to think I can eat my own weight and at the Old Ottoman I almost did.…

You might have seen some of these images from Hagia Sofia before on our instagram stories, but I thought it was about time that we shared them on the blog aswell. Our visit to Istanbul was HOT, really hot, and the day that we decided to visit Hagia Sofia was not an exception to the summerheat. Once again, we did did not do what I always encourage you to do, we did not go there in the morning before the crowds get there. We were in line to enter the museum for like an hour and as I said – it was hot and sweaty to the point were I…

Its beautiful right? Gülhane park in Istanbul Turkey is kind of like an oasis in the middle of the city, with its location beeing right smack in the city center. And the park is not just big, its huge. But do you want to know my favorite part about this specific park? You can actually use it. Even though theres people everywhere thats working in park, gardening and keeping it clean, its okey to use park. Its okey if you want to bring a picnic blanket and make it a family day. Its okey to lay on the grass and read a good book. You can actually use the park,…

This is one of all the beautiful places we passed every day duting our trip to Istanbul, Valens Aqueduct. Its huge, 29 meter high, but thats not really strange seeing as it was the major water-providing system back in the old days when capital was called Constantinopel. Beautiful right? I know I have not shown you a lot of images from our trip to Istanbul, but stey tuned, I promise you – they are comming! //Ann Dont forget to join us on Facebook andInstagram for daily updates and more images.

I know right? Its really stunning, this is the Süleymaniye Mosque mosque aswell, just from another angle. There are several entries to the mosques surrounding areas and you get kind of a different experience depending on where you enter. This part had this beautiful garden and graveyard, some catacombs and some sleeping kittens. So its not just a historical site, its also a peaceful greenery that had a relaxed feeling to it. The cats are free to go where ever they want in Istanbul, trye’re well liked. We even found one playing around inside the shoe of a tourist, so cute, //Ann Dont forget to join us on Facebook andInstagram…

Am I drowning you in images? If thats the case then I’m sorry, but I have so many pictures from out trip to Istanbul, I dont ever think Im gonna run out of content. Anyways, Şehzade Mosque is located on the third hill in Istanbul. That really doesnt say much does it? I know, but if you’re there and you google it, you’ll find it. And theres quite a story for all of you history geeks out there. The mosque is also located just beside the Green marble Stone which markes the center of old Istanbul. The arcitect wanted to build the the mosque at the center of the city,…