Istanbul, Turkey - Day Two

True to form, it's taken me a little longer to get around to posting day two of our trip to Turkey. Sorry about that. Day two essentially revolved around a quest to find one food that we were desperate to try in Turkey - falafel. Whilst Falafel isn't your stereotypical Turkish dish (it isn't on the menu in a lot of the restaurants we visited) we figured that the middle-eastern community would have a few decent restaurants in Istanbul...

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Istanbul, Turkey - Day Zero & Day One

So, things didn't quite turned out as we planned. Plans to head to Croatia for some summer sun were replaced by a late summer trip to Istanbul. I certainly wasn't disappointed! The Blue Mosque by night We had a total of four days in Istanbul after finding some bargain flights online with Turkish Airlines (£120 pp return from Gatwick). It turned out that this amount of time was probably about right for us. We perhaps could've had one more day...

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Holidays 2013

This year is shaping up to be a good year in terms of holidays. Fortunately, due to a number of changes with my contract in work, it's looking like I'll be getting an annual entitlement of 28 days for the leave year 2013 (which starts on 1st April 2013 and runs until 31st March 2014). This is in addition to rolling forward 8 days from 2012 which leaves me with 36 days for the year! Earlier this year, my girlfriend surprised me with a trip to Dortmund...

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