Turkey
Everyone I know and all the strangers I don't know had told me the same thing, that Turkey was the worst country ever, so I was doubtful about going there. But at the same time they all had been to the tourist destinations like Alanya, which I don't consider "the real Turkey" and I was going to Istanbul, which is the cultural and historic center of the country. I had always had a fascination for the city since one side of it is Europe and the other is Asia, two continents within the same city, only a bridge apart. My friend Christofer and I hadn't seen each other for a long while since he now lives in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, while I still live in Gothenburg. We were 3 hours away from each other by train but we were also 3 hours away from each other by plane to Istanbul, so we chose the latter one and met up at the Atatürk Airport. We arrived late at night so we took a cab to go to the hotel called Alilass to get some sleep so w...