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hanging out at home with my sister right before she flies “home” turkish tea, simit, fresh caught fisht in tub, kokorec, mellon and raki, vapur in bosphorus with Galata tower in the background 0Tweet

Yesterday Nadeem cousin Nasreen told me that she is planing to go on a vacation in Turkey. I really like planning vacations and helping others plan their vacations. As I was making a list of places to recommend I remembered using Google Maps for another trip and how convenient it was. So I started adding [...]

A couple of days before I left Turkey, I visited our summer house with my mom and grandmother. Our summer house is on an island off the coast of Istanbul, called Buyukada. (The island is only half an hour away from the mainland, great place to visit on weekends) We ended up spending some time [...]