Tag Archives: Turkey

Istanbul from the Air

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Tanzalong | Leave a comment

Our departure from Istanbul gave us from great sunset views of the city below and the Bosphorus.

Istanbul

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Tanzalong | Leave a comment

We travelled back from the UK via Istanbul in Turkey. We flew using Turkish Air with a 15 hour delay between flights. We wanted to take the opportunity to visit the city, though this was planned long before recent events, we felt reassured it was going to be safe to visit.

What we didn’t realise was that as part of the flight we had the option of a free walking tour of Istanbul with breakfast and lunch. This took in two of the most famous sites in Istanbul, the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia, a former church turned mosque, turned museum.

Here are some pictures of the day.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Earth (Below)

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Tanzalong | 1 comment

A final submission to this week’s photo challenge: Earth. If possible I like to get some snaps of the earth from the plane whenever I go flying – these were taken at various points on the journey from Qatar to London in 2013 at the end of my trip to Vietnam and Cambodia (the first half of the journey having taken place overnight). Pictures here from Qatar, Iraq, Turkey, Central Europe and UK (London)