Turkiye 2023: Day 2 & More Touring on Our Own
This is the second full day here and our first day with the group tour, which officially commence with a Welcome Dinner with our tour manage/director, or shall I refer to her here as TM? Having said that, we have the whole day to ourselves to continue exploring this incredibly vibrant and historically rich city. But first, we had to leave our little hotel in the Sultanahmet area and transfer to the accommodations that the tour company chose for us. In order to accomplish that we decided to use the tram to take us to the next hotel. Now this hotel that the tour company put us in is quite fancy and huge. The front desk has a huge room on the ground floor to hold our luggage before the official check-in time. This hotel sets the tone for the rest of the trip with fantastic accommodations. This hotel is near the Bosphorus Strait. The Bosphorus Strait is a significant shipping route between the Black Sea and the world's oceans and also connects the Black Sea with the Marm
