Miscellaneous Photos of Istanbul

This is a model of my hotel. My room is on the 4th floor in the lower left tower. The entrance, on the right, is on the 9th floor! Go figure.

This is the view to the west from the elevator. My room faced east...

This is the hotel looking west. In the foreground is a huge soccer stadium.

I guess we are never far from our national presence!

So which one has the cat-bird seat?

Shopping anyone? This place gave me the heebie-jeebies, much more so than New York, New Orleans, or other places I have been. The store owners saw me coming and would follow me down the "Grand Bazaar." We were allowed an hour here and I spent 10 minutes; then just sat outdoors, on a bench and watched and listened to the various people.

This is the Egyptian Obelisk in the middle of the Hippodrome, where the horses raced around this area.