I woke up very tired, so I had a slow day today. I left the hotel to have lunch and take a quick walk down to what I thought was a park at the tip of the Sultanahmet peninsula. Unfortunately the park was closed, but instead I was able to have a walk along picturesque Kennedy Drive... a motorway that skirts the peninsula, dominating the waterfront Manhattan-style. The name dates this road perfectly. Early sixties, when freeways were going up everywhere, and even sunny Brissie was in the early stages of planning the freeways that would destroy our best riverfront aspects and slice up so many communities.
What? You didn't come here for a rant? Okay, then here are some photos of how Istanbul lives with its 20 million motor vehicles.
Oh, and I cleaned the camera... so mostly these shots were a bit of a test run. I think the dust bunnies are gone.
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| Kennedy Drive |
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| Boys dodging speeding cars. |
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| Impromptu scooter conversation between strangers. This never happens in Brisbane. |
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| The new trams just fit in |
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| They fit in... just. |
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