Frankfurt Airport - After taking an 8 hour overnight bus from Prague, I spent about 6 hours in the airport waiting for my plane. It's a great airport, yeah, and the McDonald's even had the elusive McRib sandwich, but I was going insane just walking circles around the area outside of security. Turkish airlines was great, though. I got to listen to Turkish pop/rock on the airplane's radio system. You can imagine what it was like.
This is the street near my temporary flat. By the way, I've gotten a more permanent accommodation set up just today, so I'll be moving into that tomorrow. We're renting from a very nice, helpful Turkish/American couple. The flat is newly renovated, new kitchen stuff, bathroom furnishings, etc. etc. and it's, naturally, on a huge, steep hill (hooray!). I'll post some pictures of that sometime soon though, maybe once I get settled.
Public transportation! Kinda... well, this is one of the historical trams that runs through town. Outside of this, they have a few newer tram lines that run to both sides of the Golden Horn, and they have an expanding metro system. Coming from Prague, it's unbelievable, shocking actually, how little public rail based transportation options there are. There are a ton of buses, dolmuses (private buses), and taxis though. Oh, there are also ferries, and apparently most of those are the same price as taking the bus or the tram. I would've thought it'd be more expensive.
I also ran into somebody on the street today. In Istanbul. The city of like 12 million people. It was one of our friends from Prague. Very strange feeling, running into somebody you know in a city like this. I'll post some more pictures soon. Miss you guys a lot, but I'll see you soon!
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