Not a lot happened during these days. Well, whilst I was living through them I’m sure they were fairly eventful, but in hindsight, they were fairly simple days. Pendik is a few bus/train rides outside of Istanbul, maybe a couple of hours’ travel time, and neither Jesse or I felt really keen to take the challenge. The Istanbul bus system is fairly insane, even if you do speak Turkish. Plus, we were both pretty tired from our first week. So we spent relaxed time around Pendik. We went to the local mall, spent time at cafes to use the free WiFi, and walked the local neighbourhood. Basically, we just acted like unemployed youths for a week.

So this blog is more of a photo collage of happenings from these days, with a few small yet memorable highlights. Enjoy!

Below is the cafe down the road where we begrudgingly have to spend hours if we want to connect to the World Wide Web….

Below is a just a very small selection of some of the local pudding talent……

Jesse Reilly is our shopping boy. Here, I was very bored whilst he was shopping. So I picked up a pair of grey men’s undies, yelled out, “Hey Jesse!” and threw them at him whilst simultaneously trying to capture his reaction on camera. Nothing major, but it looked like this:

Hahahaha, still cracks me up….

Basically, in the below photos we are at the sea-side at night after an hour’s walk from Leyla’s place. We just hung out with cute creatures, played in the kid’s play area, drank beer on the rocks and visited THE TARDIS CAFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And lucky last, a bunch of even more random photos:

Next: back to Istanbul.