Topkapi Palace, Istanbul

Tourists, showing how intense the heat was. They are obviously from Seattle, with their RealNetworks and Starbucks T shirts. Sheesh.

To the Bazaar

Sweets!

Boat ride on the Bosphorus

Transit: into the green

Subtle packaging in the Duty Free shop at Heathrow...

Ireland

Itinerary: Landed in Shannon, went north, then south. The following posts are in order of the trip.


Better Map of our Trip

[legend: Purple-> bus, reddish-> tours, yellow-> train]

Galway

Lynch's house walls or something like that. Skull and crossbones at the location where Lynch's son was hung- by Lynch himself.

Our first lunch in Galway. SO healthy.

Connemara (the wild west)

These were mussel farms in the middle of the fjord.
Common vista in Connemara



Stopped for sweets in Clifden Town...
Kylemore Abbey


Fuschia- Ireland is rife with Fuschia.

Peat!

Water under the bridge.