Final Day in Istanbul

We woke up a bit loggy from the previous night and decided we wanted to go down the Bosphorus, so we took a bus to Rumli Hisar because it was raining. We went to a different tea shop, ordered menemens but Evie started to feel nauseaous, partly from cigarette smoke, and perhaps something else. WE did not stay long and ended up walking back to our apartment, about a 45 minute walk. Fortunately, we missed the rain, stopped by a tea house where I was short of money, gave them the liras, though they did not want it and went home to relax, work on my journal, Evie worked on the pictures. We did not do much the rest of the day. Sami called to wish us a bon voyage; he is now in Bodrum with friends, then on to Ankara, then home then London to see his daughter. He did leave some evil eye hangings for us, along with assorted knick knacks to put on our refrigerator. They are fun and very thoughtful of him. I went to Migros, bought some yogurt and sutlac, then to the village for some mercimec chorba. We both were very tired, but had a couple of gin and tonics, to watch the Bosphorus one more time, then ate, watched tv and went to bed by 9:30