{"id":449,"date":"2008-08-25T10:03:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T08:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2008-08-25T10:03:35","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T08:03:35","slug":"off-to-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/25\/off-to-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to Istanbul!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/25\/off-to-istanbul\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-450 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/plane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/plane.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/plane-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m off to Istanbul today. It&#8217;s only been 6 months since I came back to Holland from Bulgaria where I lived for half a year. Now it&#8217;s time to get myself over to Istanbul for half a year of studying abroad. Since my girlfriend&#8217;s been in Holland with me for the last weeks and she&#8217;s from Sofia, we&#8217;re both flying to Sofia, Bulgaria tonight. I&#8217;ll be staying there a night and then I&#8217;m taking a 10-12 hour busride to Istanbul. Wednesdaymorning, I should be there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It looks like Wednesday&#8217;s going to be a bit crazy&#8230; Out of the bus, into the taxi. Out of the taxi, into the hostel. Out of the hostel, into the classroom for some intensive Turkish language courses. FIrst things first though, I&#8217;m leaving in a few hours and still haven&#8217;t completely packed yet, plus I need to get myself a new insurance for my stay abroad (but I know which to take, it&#8217;s just a matter of signing up). So I&#8217;m going to leave you like this. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrecard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">EntreCard<\/a> users; I&#8217;ll try to drop back to the best of my ability, but the next days might be a bit chaotic, so I can&#8217;t promise anything. Keep dropping though!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To all the people I know in Holland; I&#8217;ve had a great time&#8230; To the people I know in Istanbul; see you soon! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Want to stay up to date on my life in Istanbul? Subscribe by <a href=\"http:\/\/basbasbas.com\/blog\/feed\/\" target=\"_blank\">RSS<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1139007&amp;loc=en_US\" target=\"_blank\">click here for email updates<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off to Istanbul today. It&#8217;s only been 6 months since I came back to Holland from Bulgaria where I lived for half a year. Now it&#8217;s time to get myself over to Istanbul for half a year of studying abroad. Since my girlfriend&#8217;s been in Holland with me for the last weeks and she&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18],"tags":[74,140,331,361,220,1030,362],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-travel","tag-bulgaria","tag-holland","tag-istanbul","tag-preparation","tag-sofia","tag-travel","tag-turkey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}