Sunday
23rd February 2003 |
![Oops](tur_045_small.jpg) |
A car crash,
Istannbul style |
![Brakes: non-essential](tur_046_small.jpg) |
Who needs brakes
when you've got a horn? |
!["Can you hear..."](tur_047_small.jpg) |
More snow than
the day before |
![Besitkas, from the back of a cab](tur_049_small.jpg) |
Besiktas' Inonu
Stadium (just down the hill from Taksim Square) |
![A mural on the Aya Sofia ceiling](tur_053_small.jpg) |
The ceiling of the
Aya Sofia in Sultanahmet (from when the building was one of the largest
churches in the world) |
![The mihrab](tur_056_small.jpg) |
And a legacy from
it's time as a mosque |
![Ornate tiles](tur_063_small.jpg) |
Ornate tiles in
Aya Sofia |
![Helen and Medusa](tur_069_small.jpg) |
Helen
next to one of the Medusa columns in the Sunken Cistern |
![Aya Sofia](tur_075_small.jpg) |
Aya Sofia from the
square |
![Paul outside the Aya Sofia](tur_077_small.jpg) |
Paul in the
street outside the Cistern |
![The Blue Mosque in the snow](tur_078_small.jpg) |
The Blue Mosque
across the gardens |
![Aya Sofia](tur_081_small.jpg) |
Aya Sofia from
the Mosque gardens |
![The Mosque's fountain of ablutions](tur_082_small.jpg) |
The fountain in
the Mosque courtyard |
![Paul dons trousers](tur_084_small.jpg) |
Paul,
with trousers and kilt combo, inside the awe-inspiring Blue Mosque |
![Helen with pashmina](tur_088_small.jpg) |
Helen and her
pashmina |
![The classic view of the Mosque](tur_089_small.jpg) |
The Mosque's
cascading roofs, from the courtyard |
![The police are tanked up](tur_090_small.jpg) |
Helen outside the
turnstile at Galatasaray |
![The posh seats](tur_092_small.jpg) |
The Ali Sami Yen
stadium in the snow |
![The bouncy seats](tur_093_small.jpg) |
The singing stand |
![Seats? What seats?](tur_095_small.jpg) |
There are seats
under there, somewhere |
![Not what you would call "casuals"](tur_097_small.jpg) |
The Malatyaspor
fans, complete with 10 guys in yellow balaclavas |
![The cheap seats](tur_102_small.jpg) |
The police stand
by as fans run for the cover of the stand (with only a 10-foot fence to
negotiate) |
![Paul: cold](tur_108_small.jpg) |
Paul turns his
back on the action |
![A sweeper formation](tur_110_small.jpg) |
The ref stops
play to allow ground staff on to sweep the lines clear |
![Arcelik?](tur_111_small.jpg) |
Advertising,
Turkish style |
![Galatasaray's coach](tur_116_small.jpg) |
The official team
bus |