Istanbul-ly for me

Good morning from the Jazz (...nice) Hotel

Breakfast time -only me at first as I'm

early - off course - to make sure I get

to work OK especially on the first day

Yum yum - later a Japanese couple appear

Sadly I can't wow them with my 10 words

of Japanese as I have to be off

There's a PS3 in the corner

- not investigated it yet

The metro trip is quick and when I emerge

from the station I recognise the Sheraton hotel

(be there soon) and navigate directly to the office

Soup! With cheese.

Why not combine to nice things into

one soupcheeseaganza?

Seafood salad. Everything nice, but

the bits of octopus a little chewy.

Nuray (also an excellent photographer) shows me the roof

(nothing sinister). Taking my camera up there tomorrow.

The afternoon goes quite well - both team do an excellent

and thorough job of assignment one, and we run through one mock question.

That 'Dallas' shot

Another office

OK Last office for a bit

South of Taksim Square - buildings old and new

Galata Tower!

There are people at the top - hurrah!

It's still open

I queue up, and look up

Inside the lift is apparent, so no need

to climb all the stairs

I'm sort of disappointed, and sort of not.

At the top I spy the Bosphorous

Little tower from a big one

Far distant skyscrapers are where the office is

Topkapi Palace

Nice-looking restaurant

A very nice man takes my pic

In the tower shop are surprisingly fabulous wares

mmm the evil eye book, or the purple/red tower?

as one's almost my emblem I'll have that

More towering buildings on way back

Style without substance?

Must try one of these overlooking-the-street cafes

A little treat on way to metro -

mussels and rice in the shell -

excellent

The left-hand sign obviously means: No Karate

The right-hand: Nonchalance forbidden