Yesterday we bid a fond farewell to Istanbul, at least until our return home, when we have a brief layover at the new airport. Incidentally, this airport is huge — it’s called Istanbul Havalimanı, so I decided to look up who this new airport was named after. Turns out, Havalimanı simply means airport in Turkish. […]

Not much energy left to write, but here are a bunch of pictures. One more day in Istanbul and then on to Nairobi. Finding great food and drink and lots of friendly people.

Arriving into Turkey was different than Liz and I had remembered and expected. In fact, the airport was almost unrecognizable — in a good way. We breezed through the visa/passport checks and all the terminals and bag claim areas were brand spanking new. Quite a transformation! The best part was that we hoped we would […]