{"id":452,"date":"2008-08-27T15:33:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T13:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2008-08-27T15:33:02","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T13:33:02","slug":"quick-update-on-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/27\/quick-update-on-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Update on Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excuse the Turkish symbols in this post. I have a lot to tell but l\u0131ttle t\u0131me and I w\u0131ll rev\u0131s\u0131t th\u0131s post later.<\/p>\n<p>It has been 30 hours s\u0131nce I woke up th\u0131s morn\u0131ng. Last n\u0131ght I hopped on a bus to Turkey. Some observat\u0131ons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As you&#8217;re nearing the border, Bulgaria gets more and more Turkish. You actually see Turkish characters like &#8220;\u00e7&#8221; and &#8220;\u0131&#8221; pop up. Also the \u0131nter\u0131or of shops changes drast\u0131cally. I&#8217;ve not\u0131ced th\u0131s before when I went to Sandansk\u0131, wh\u0131ch \u0131s close to Greece.<\/li>\n<li>The Turkish customs was not as strict as I&#8217;ve heard it was.<\/li>\n<li>Turkish bureaucracy IS as chaotic as I&#8217;ve heard it was.<\/li>\n<li>So are Turkish streets.<\/li>\n<li>English&#8230; the unknown language.<\/li>\n<li>Istanbul&#8217;s like a fairytale.<\/li>\n<li>Living in a dorm sucks. Especially if you have to share your room with 4 people, your showers and toilets with 80 people and the only door that you can lock in your room is a closet door. Looks like I&#8217;ll be carrying my laptop around until I find an apartment.<\/li>\n<li>Istanbul dr\u0131vers are very cheeky, but very polite at the same time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, I have to catch up on some Turkish lessons (missed 3 days). Will post something proper once I find a nice wi-fi connection. Lots of great stuff coming up though. When I went to Sofia I expected a place that was 10x more different than Holland. It wasn&#8217;t that different. But this place, oh boy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excuse the Turkish symbols in this post. I have a lot to tell but l\u0131ttle t\u0131me and I w\u0131ll rev\u0131s\u0131t th\u0131s post later. It has been 30 hours s\u0131nce I woke up th\u0131s morn\u0131ng. Last n\u0131ght I hopped on a bus to Turkey. Some observat\u0131ons: As you&#8217;re nearing the border, Bulgaria gets more and more [&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":[74,489,488,331,220,362,487],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-travel","tag-bulgaria","tag-bureaucracy","tag-dorm","tag-istanbul","tag-sofia","tag-turkey","tag-turkish-customs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","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=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}