Coffee, tea, nargileh, and shesh besh at Café Meşale our first night in the city. They had musicians as well as a whirling dervish.
Breakfast and drinks across from the Blue Mosque, just before we went to the Aya Sofya. Ayelen asks Adis how to pronounce "water" in Turkish; Adis speaks Bosnian and as a result knows some of the words and pronunciations of Turkish. This clip makes me smile because Ayelen, a Spanish-speaker, is asking in English about the pronunciation of a Turkish word, yet she spells the word aloud using the French alphabet.
The call to prayer in front of the Blue Mosque. It's even louder than it sounds -- it woke me up every morning around 5am, and our hostel was at least half a mile away. It probably doesn't help that most of the mosques in the city broadcast (is that the right word?) their call to prayer at exactly the same moment.
