I took pictures of some of them and 3 huge dogs. They were all very tired because of the Ramadan:).
Saturday, 26 July 2014
Cats of Istanbul
Thursday, 24 July 2014
Istanbul - the city of shopping, cats and cultural mix
I love Istanbul! I have discovered it in 2007 and last week it was my third visit to this colourful city.
Istanbul is a city of lots of things, beside the cultural differences, at any corner you will find:
- Cats(the land of cats, because Turkish people do love them)
- Merchandise of any kind(I mean it - you can brake your hill and there in the corner there are shoes for sale)
- Kebap(delicious)
- Turkish delight(heaven)
- Spices(crazy strong smell)
- Whatever famous Designer Bag you want(copy of it of course:))
- At one single corner there is the Grand bazaar
This time my trip was about shopping and less visiting.
I shopped a lot because is one of the things I do best. You will see in a future post e few of my purchase.
We got there during Ramadan, which is like Christmas for us, but it last for a month and it is more about self, god and family.
I shopped at two shopping malls - Nautilus in the Asian side and Forum Istanbul in the European side. For Nautilus we took the Marmaray subway train which travels under Bosphorus Strait. I saw there the largest escalators and there were 5 of them until the actual station.
Istiklal Caddesi is a very European like shopping street that has a very nice red tram that rides in the middle of the street.
The Grand Bazaar is there since 1461 and is simply amazing. It is like a huge maze with painted arcades and shops full of gold and traditional lamps, hookah, pots, leather jackets and bags.
Thanks to Ramadan we did a little bit of shopping in a traditional street market.
About the touristic side of this trip I visited a very interesting place called Basilica Cistern and I went on a cruise on Bosphorus.
This is a city that you must see, with it's cultural differences, steep streets, and I think the largest market place in Europe, Istanbul is the oriental bridge between Europe and Asia.
You can see in this post the cats&dogs I spotted in Istanbul.
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Kimono - DIY
One of this summer must piece is the Kimono. I wanted one because they are really pretty and flattering. It doesn't seem to be hard to sew one so I got some fantastic fabric and 2m of fringes and get the kimono done.
It took me about 2 hours to get the sewing done and I really like the way it turned out. I got the pattern idea from here. I've done my own measurements and here they are:
Fringes - 2m
Fabric of your choice - 1,3m
Back of the kimono - 68x80cm
2 x front of kimono - 75x27cm
2 x Sleeves - 66x25cm
You can adjust these according to your own body&you can add whatever embellishments you like.
This is my kimono:
Hunting stairs in skirt
After discovering the beautiful Xenofon Street, it was time to go out there and find other stair streets in Bucharest. And so we did! We found some amazing places in our stair street hunting. You can see some of them in the photos below.
Blouse - Primark
Skorts - River Island
Bag - H&M
Sandals- Leather Shop
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