Istanbul Day 1

So most of you know that we chose to start the honeymoon in Istanbul as it has an average Feb temp of 7 degrees. What I have now learned is that sometimes it snows here in Feb. Today its minus 3 and snowing. We've taken some amazing snaps but haven't worked out how to post them on this site yet.

If someone could work out how to do it and then email me it would be great!

Leaving Frankfurt was easy - we certainly made the most of our time there but its not a fantastic city for tourists - especially compared to Heidelberg where you can imagine that you are in fact German and eating sausage and drinking beer is a national pastime.

Cathy didn't mention the Frankfurt zoo in her post the other day. Best zoo I've been to in a while. Aardvarks, penguins and piranhas just aren't located in "ordinary" zoos. Nice one.

We ran into some Australians in London who had just been to the Ukraine and they were talking it up in a big way. We'll see if we can get over there later in the trip. Must pack our orange scarf if we get there!

We are staying in an amazing pension in Istanbul. See its website.

Things we've done to save money so far:

1) Fare evaded in Frankfurt - After learning of the "honesty system" for Frankfurt public transport, we implemented our own "tourist, not sure what we are doing system" whereby we bought some tix but not others. No-one asked to see our ticket in 5 days. Nice one.

2. The "Old Women at the Salad Bar technique" - whereby at breakfast time, enough food for lunch is placed into the Crumpler bag and then prepared into a lovely sandwich on the road. Reminded me of my Sizzler days that one.