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After a long long time I was not completely destroyed on 1st of January, but I still can't decide if that is good or bad.
Since people here don't celebrate much they also worked quite normally today and also our departure day will be here soon, so we decided to do some shopping and exploring Asian side of Istanbul. First we went to local bazaar.

Stuff in the bazaar in Moda

We continued our way to confectionery Baylan, established in 1923. We had a very delicious desert, called Kup Griye.

Even I liked it

We went to the Dolmuş place and he took us to Fenerbahçe, where we had a nice walk by the sea and in some of the rich parts there.

 

 

 

 Walking in Fenerbahçe area

It was time to taste the burger in a Burger house. They are very expensive, but also very very good. For example, Chef special burger costed 22TL (11€).

 

 

 Burger in McDonalds... if you believe in fairytales

After the most expensive burger in my life we went into hamam. It's a very nice thing, since you can go to sauna, then they clean you up and massage your body.

Very old hamam

And the last thing we did in Istanbul was smoking the water pipe, called nargile in Turkish language.

Banana and coconut in milk nargile

In the evening we watched two movies. First one was The Proposal with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. The second one was James Cameron's Avatar.