ISTANBUL - LAST MINUTE SHOPPING...

The last day in Istanbul! I can’t believe it’s almost time to head back home AGAIN!!! Of course we missed the hotel breakfast again this morning. We drag ourselves into the hotel lift to realise Christine’s photo is missing in action. Damn I wonder who pocketed that one?
We found ourselves sitting at Maestro ordering food.

I decide to go for my usual breakfast plate:

While Lucy goes for this:

I love it Kofte for breakfast!

During we check up on Christine’s photo in the toilet. Its still there. It doesn’t look like anyone has discovered it yet!

Since its our last day we realise that we probably wont make it back to Maestro so we do our final farewells. As were walking out we grab a photo with the door stop slash bible basher.
While the bible basher is talking randomly we become obsessed with the parking attendant who seems to be causing a scene. Since they made this road a one way instead of installing parking metres they installed a parking attendant. He collects money for parking and using the toilets in Maestro like his own personal bathroom.

Above - The parking attendant

Meanwhile Bible basher asked for my number so here I am writing it down when I ask Lucy to confirm it. Lucy confirms it and we cross over back to the hotel.

It isn’t later in the day that I realised I gave him my number with a digit missing. When I told Lucy she said that she thought I did it on purpose hence why she didn’t correct it. Haha

We walk into Sude Konak to realise the lobby is now a warehouse. Lucy states that there are some kind of Korean noodles in the boxes. We figure there must be a Korean tour group coming today. That’s the last thing we need right now.

The plan for the day is to hit the grand bazaar but first we need to find a photo shop to do some last minute damage.

We hit the grand bazzar to find ourselves standing outside the Greek Scarf Guy’s shop. The minute Lucy strolls into his little shack his eyes are glued on her tits. This time its my turn to buy. I’ve been eyeing those sultan coats. Don’t ask me why I just want one. I think I have ideas for a dress up party haha

Above - Greek Guy covers his hard on haha

While were negotiating inside the shop the Greek guy seems to be getting abit frustrated. At first I thought it was because we were negotiating the price but I soon realised it was the fact Lucy practically had her tits falling out of her top and I think that was starting to make him hard inside the shop and lets just say he needed to be relieved hahaha

His friend came storming into the shop and the next thing you know the Greek Scraf Guy tells his friend to take care of us while he storms outside his shop away from Lucy’s chest. God those babies are getting dangerous around here. We do our usual exchange and get a photo with the new guy before storming outside to say bye to the Greek Scarf Guy. The poor guy cant even have eye contact with us.

Greek Scarf Guy's Friend

We decide to storm over to the Jewellery guy. Our theory is if Lucy’s top’s causing that much of a fuss at the Greek Scarf Guy, we might score some free jewellery if she pops a button or few at the Jewellery guy.

We rock up to the Jewellery guy to cause a scene on arrival. His assistant who looks like his popped one too many E’s cant stand still behind the counter. The jewellery guy tells me on his first day he smashed the glass counter some how. Too funny!

Just looking at him makes me laugh:

While I’m negotiating deals with the jewellery guy I notice more and more buttons on Lucy’s top is getting popped. Of course she gets rewarded as we storm off.

We barely walked down 2 stores when Lucy discovered really nice peacock scarfs. She wanted to purchase her mum one. At the same time I thought my mum would love one as well. So we started the bargaining process, well Lucy did anyways.

I don’t know what happen but there was a lot of yelling figures back and forward. The guy told me to say something to Lucy to control her as he wasn’t making any money. Before I could get a word in the deal was sealed with an evil grin on Lucy’s face. We need to get out of here before we get hunted!

Above -Peacock Scarf Guy - takes all major credit cards...

Before leaving the grand bazzar there was person left to visit - Zulfu the original scarf guy. We barely walked past his shop and he came out screaming at us again. We quickly pulled out the photo we took with him the other day and presented it to him. He got all excited and decided to put it on his wall of fame. God I wonder if it will be there in 2 years time?

Lucy wanted the traditional hats I got yesterday for a work mate. Before she could finish telling Zulfu, he grabbed a few and tossed them into her bag at no charge. Nice work. We have the grand bazzar working for us haha

It was time to farewell the grand bazzar as we headed back to the hotel. For some reason we decided to walk the distance than catch the tram. Along the way Lucy spotted an old lady sitting on the ground selling some hand knitted socks. She thought her grandmother would like them. Much to my disgust this is when Lucy starts bargaining with the poor woman. The poor woman is going on about how she needs to feed her children and Lucy just dumps the socks and starts walking off until the poor woman gives in and decides to sell them for whatever she can take.

For some reason we ended up at Maestro again. I thought we did our final farewells this morning? Bell boy spotted us from across the road and headed over. Next thing you know his ordering a feast for himself.

As the Maestro guy is telling Bell boy how his booked a room at Sude Konak to take his girl our food arrives:

While Lucy and I discussing Christine’s photo mess Bell boy pisses off leaving the bill to us. As Bell boy pisses off we decide to leave Maestro Christine’s photo as we leave.

Where the photo is planted - Maestro toilets:

We head back to the hotel to start packing before we leave for dinner. We decide to head across to the Asia side tonight to have dinner with Seyda. Before leaving we decide to put together a show bag for Seyda. Basically anything that is useable that we don’t want to take back to Sydney because its too heavy or easily replaceable there. There was stuff like lotions, sunscreen and of course we had to add in Christine’s photo.

We grabbed the show bag, our cameras and walked over to the ferry. First we had to leave our trade mark behind:

We were running late and we just missed the ferry. I had to call Seyda to inform her that were going to be late. We waited for the next ferry.