Saturday with the Students

Saturday I relaxed in the morning. I took my time at the breakfast buffet. I met up with Markus, Anne, and Kai at breakfast, so we could all go out sightseeing. We headed down to the Sultanahmet district. Some older tourists asked us to take their picture, and enthusiastically wanted to take ours for us! This is in front of the second gate of Topkapi Palace.



We were on our way to the Blue Mosque. I thought it was quite beautiful, but I must admit I had thought it would be bluer!



Since it's still a house of worship, you must remove your shoes and women must cover their hair.



The mosque is in great shape, it doesn't look 400 years old. The interior designs are amazing. It would be cool to be able read all the calligraphy. Most of the mosque is blocked off for worshipers, so we just sat on the carpet and admired the interior from one vantage. We started walking back toward Hagia Sophia and Topkapi, and got distracted by this candy-maker.



I treated Kai to a candy. Mine was kiwi and sour cherry. The candy doesn't harden, it's halfway between a hard candy and molasses in texture.



We sat down in the square and had a little lunch snack, before we parted ways, them for Hagia Sophia, and me for Topkapi...