More Pix

Of Istanbul.

These were taken during our cruise on the Bosphorus on Sunday. In this one-someone has money:

This is the old fort that guarded the entrance from the Mamara Sea:

The view of a fort near the second bridge North of Istanbul:

Literally Hundreds of ships transit the straits each day. Making for a long day for the bridge crews:

On Galata tower it would seem the Seagulls are unfazed:

And one thing the city has too much of-is mosques.

And lets not forget why it all happened that way-(pictures taken from the Panorama of the siege of Istanbul):

Here are the ruins of the wall still as it was in June of 1453: