I was fortunate to have my own personal tour guide, Eda, to one of the Prince's Islands this past week: Buyukada. The Prince's Islands is a group of 4 or 5 islands about an hour ferry ride from Istanbul, and Buyukada is the largest of the group. One of the nice things on the islands is that there are no vehicles, aside from horse drawn carts, so it was a very welcomed retreat from the insane traffic of Istanbul.
We arrive on the island around mid-day, spent some time walking to the top where we had lunch and soaked up the pollution free air for a while and took in the view. After lunch we tried, unsuccessfully, to find a beach for some swimming, did a lot of walking (passed a 'new age' mosque), had some tea, played some back-gammon (seemingly the national game), before catching the ferry back and having some interesting 'special sauce' drenched but very tasty mini-hamburgers at 'the Bambi cafe', the name of which I don't think is indicative of the contents of the bugers.
We arrive on the island around mid-day, spent some time walking to the top where we had lunch and soaked up the pollution free air for a while and took in the view. After lunch we tried, unsuccessfully, to find a beach for some swimming, did a lot of walking (passed a 'new age' mosque), had some tea, played some back-gammon (seemingly the national game), before catching the ferry back and having some interesting 'special sauce' drenched but very tasty mini-hamburgers at 'the Bambi cafe', the name of which I don't think is indicative of the contents of the bugers.
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