Istanbul is gigantic!

We arrived in Istanbul yesterday evening and took a cab from the airport to the apartment we had rented online. Once again our apartment seems to be very far away from the main part of the city. It's hard to make these arrangements when you know virtually nothing about the city you are going to, so the names of neighborhoods don't have much meaning. We are going to venture out today and see how easy it will be to get around with public transportation. There will definitely be ferries involved since we are on the other side of the Bosphorous strait. Yesterday we basically flew from Asia to Europe, then took a cab back to Asia again! The cab ride felt a lot like driving the freeways of L.A., except that there were guys wandering around in the middle of the traffic lanes trying to sell things.

I hope this works out ok because we are here for ten days. I think maybe I should have stuck one more small town in between Selcuk and Istanbul for a few days.