The real backpacking begins!

I was spoiled last week to have such luxuries of fellow native english speakers (even though I sometimes still needed a translation) but after only an hour's worth of sleep last night, a 2:30am night bus full of annoying drunks, a train ride, a budget airline flight, a shuttle ride that took twice as long as it needed because my driver didn't know where he was going.  I have arrived in Turkey!!!  It's nothing like I imagined.  The views are unreal!  And the mosques are very interesting.  I can actually see the Blue Mosque from the window of the hotel room right now.  Beautiful!  Marnie and I went in to have a look, and wrapped ourselves up in scarves to cover our hair and our knees.  It's neat to experience such a different culture.  We also toured Aya Sophia, built several times and has been both a Christian Church and a Mosque, very unique that there are symbols from both religions there.  We leave shortly for an overnight bus to Cappadocia, going out to enjoy the rest of the time we have here now!!