Istanbul is a city between two continents

Istanbul is a city between two continents

I was delighted to have traveled to Istanbul, Turkey, 

in June to attend the World Youth Cup. I chose to go to the first group in Istanbul, which includes the teams of France, Ghana, Spain and America. It was a good choice because two teams reached the Golden Square.

Despite the presence of the Egyptian team in the city of Antalya with the Iraqi team in the last group but I preferred to go to Istanbul to force the first group competition until the final was between France and Ghana
The beginning of the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh for the presence of a reduction of about 1,000 Egyptian pounds to travel from Sharm el-Sheikh from Cairo and of course the torment of travel from Ismailia Madinaty and the Sharm el-Sheikh for 7 hours in the bus interspersed with short breaks and torment waiting in Sharm El Sheikh Khati early swimmer because the plane cat sixth hour A.m
On the blessing of God was traveling to get to Istanbul near the ninth text of Turkey and provide the clock for 60 minutes in summer / while thank God for this bad habit in Egypt
At the Istanbul airport, we took with me my colleagues from the metro, from the airport to the Xray station in the center of Istanbul. From there, the subway was taken to Sultan Ahmed. The hotel is of course a ticket price of 3 lira, even though the Istanbul ticket for public transport will be used for 9 and 1 lira and will be reduced to 25 and 1 lir at the next time during Hours of previous use and so on while the taxi wants 50 lira laxrai and 100 liras for Sultan Ahmed of course exploit
After the stay in the hotel I got the tram to the station Kabatash and from there I received the tunnel / tunnel / literal translation of the station division and then the meter from the division to the station Sanaima where the stadium Arena Gullet Saray to extract the entry ticket stadiums from the press center there is a journey of about a continuous hour
But the ease of transport and cleanliness facilitated the commissariat and inside the metro I have to get to the station came out of the outlet on the direct and surprised because the stadium is empty as a ghost town is a stadium will open tomorrow the World Cup important I met with a young Turkish security of the stadium Delini the press center, The end of a currency period, but he came with me and came back again in the tram and showed me how to use the metro because there are substations to change the change in which is reported on the second day
And decided from the station Kabatash return walking to the territory of Ahmed to enjoy the beauty of nature, which is reflected in the pictures, where completely enjoyed nature and what was disturbing the trip the heat of the bad weather close to Cairo 10 years ago Valan Cairo near 50 degrees of temperature and soon will become like the Arab Khaj while in Turkey touches 38 Or 37 degrees
But thank God there is no moisture suffocating like Egypt
After my return to the hotel, I was completely consumed after about 35 hours without sleep. I went to the hotel to sleep until the early morning. I woke up early and breakfast. I read e-mail and I started to move immediately to the playground at about noon for fear of any accidents.
Inside the stadium, everyone was just four hours before the opening of the tournament. They were reporting the media and commercials. The most important thing was the press center after being stabbed in the maze of the playground by a paramedic who took him through the main door of the library.
At the press center, she received the pitch shirt and sat at the press center. She met colleagues from the French magazine L'Aque and France Football, and on the field she met with colleagues from the Iraqi News Agency to cover the news of the Iraqi team participating with the Egyptian team and the Chilean and English teams in the total of Antalya
After the matches for the French, Ghanaian, Spanish and American teams, we returned with my colleague Hani to Kabatash by metro. But in Captash, the tram stopped to get past 11 pm We took the bus to the Aminiño station, but before the bridge in Galata we drove back to the hotel.
On the second day, we decided to go to the Princess Islands. Of course, it was God in a land. I left the hotel after noon. I went to my colleague Hany, where he lived in a hotel close to my hotel in the area called Sarkis in the nearby city. I got to the tram and there we went to a shop named Smit Saray. A beautiful branch of the most famous Saray Saray shops of Turkey to offer genuine pastry magnificence a group of awesome baked goods and Turkish sweets
We are fed with Turkish pies, a delicious dessert, and of course ice tea ... Smit Saraya has branches everywhere, but in Sarkis it has two branches and the other behind the first branch on a street just in the middle of the old souks, which reminds me of the beloved city of Port Said. Only .. Unfortunately I did not create the branch but there is a picture of the Istanbul airport branch free market and has a branch at the airport outside the customs office, but at the airport overpriced prices why I do not know
On the opposite sidewalk from the place of Smit Saray at Sarkis station there is a store of Hafez Mustafa for Sweets and types of sweets, milk and dairy, etc. I advise him, despite the high prices compared to other shops
From the port of Kabatash, which is located just in front of the tram station and the underground station, we took the ferry to the islands of the princesses, which walked us for about the hour in the Bosphorus Strait,

And when you descend in the largest island in the seven islands, we saw the nature of Rabbanih terrible and beautiful green learned in the last Yoymn in the journey the reason of the summer rain, which did not end throughout the two days
What is important is our secret in the island on foot and we did not use bicycles to enjoy the nature of the horse and the car / horse / student for a large amount of 40 pounds for a tour that will not take a quarter of the hour means 20 dollars, even if you speak Turkish, the amount will drop to $ 10, even if a little pressure will become $ 5
The same is true of the ATMs in Al-Sultan Ahmed and others, which take advantage of the tourists in the process of changing the currency. One hundred dollars is then changed to the equivalent of 189 pounds or 190 pounds in the best shops and after two tram stations or three in Lalali, the exchange rate becomes 193 pounds, One of the owners of the shops at low price is a little Turkish and Arabic, and they understand Arabic because the Turkish is mainly a mix of Arabic and Persian and a little Mandarin, which is their native language from Central Asia where they came seven centuries ago to Europe said to me salvation of 192 pounds I said to him but in Aksy For textile and textile trades at a distance of 5 meters Tell me, "Behold, the salvation of your money is your reward, and I will change it to you as you wish."
At the same time, there was an American tourist who changed his currency and I spoke in English. The owner of the money exchange pointed to me in silence because the American could understand the conversation. I was saying that you are cutting the price by 3 lira because it is the price of the tram ticket
I generally mentioned that incident to let everyone know the experiences that I was going to use in the future
Of course I have to return from the Princess Islands at the end of the day just before Morocco which is about 8 and 40 minutes around there we went to the hotel and then sleep until the next day of exhaustion and sun exhaustion and the boat eating from us and drinking
On the second day we decided to go to Taksim Square and shop there where the month of shopping was still in its operations and the prices are actually low compared to Egypt and the rest of the Arab countries despite the high price of the currency
When we arrived at Taksim, we found a silent pause for the Turkish activists, as in the pictures in front of the building of Turkish Ataturk culture and in the center of Taksim Street was a campaign to collect signatures against Erdogan
During the shopping in one of the major shops, we were surprised by the huge manifestations of the Turkish youth, including thousands of tourists and Alartak and shops closed the windows and doors for fear of the release of liquefied gas and rubber bullets, but the process passed safely
The important thing was that there were real discounts that resulted in the purchase of a number of t-shirts at amazing prices of nearly $ 6 for T-shirt and $ 10 for trousers jeans and $ 20 for the famous sports shoes Mark Esplains of Turkey and of course discounts in the famous brands Adidas and Puma and others
After shopping and passing through the famous Turkish shops and the retail outlets of the shops we decided to sit in the center of Taksim Square in front of the Statue of Arturk and the Turkish Revolution by Zay Mohamed Saad in the film Aqel
On the other hand, there was a nice break when I visited the Tefal branch of household appliances in Turkey. I wanted to buy a small bowl and I asked the young people in the branch about the species. I saw the bowls and I tried them and their manufacturing. Is it in the factories of France or in factories in Thailand? Kalanswan Attaki experience and understood this despite the fact that I do not know Turkish from the word statement and its meaning in Turkish ladies and see them written on the doors of the toilets and I told them I know what they say I checked like ladies laughed and said no sir Take your rest We wed and they laugh
Real Ariana Stadium was a castle with a pleasure that was 6 floors to rise in the elevator next to two underground floors mean 8 Adora any medium building
But it is amazing that there is a playground on a large hill and the middle of an area famous for forests and while I was there, Wright saw the construction of a new residential area after uprooting trees around the playground hill
The next day the rest of France, America, Ghana and Spain were real strong matches
I was unable to complete the last game until its end so I can not get the metro and then the tram to return to the hotel or until the arrival of Aminino before 11 pm because public transport closes at this time and my colleague Hani Fadl to go to the division and there were demonstrations and police intervention with tear gas and of course I missed this scene because I returned To the hotel after 8 hours of exhausting in the stadium
The presence of one of the young Turkish volunteers to organize the tournament in the press center is similar to that of Ahmed Hegazy player Ismaili and the Egyptian team and the professional is currently at the club Veronetina Italian famous and admire him and his friends of the similarity of the sadness did not imagine it was true Zarif he and his colleagues and spoke long in Turkish through common words where the focus In Turkish, you discover that it is a mixed Arabic in Persian, but written in Latin characters makes you faint
When I concentrate in Turki I can talk to them and understand them and amaze them. The voice of Nightingale Asmar Abdul Halim Hafez. I have to listen to him in the press center where I respond to him very much in my love song, and you are in love with my beloved lover. Love is clear and of course the gift is the same. And in Egypt we say six to wear it on its head and Zlabila say it a bit and we say in Egypt to the top of the judge and of course everyone knows the type of fish that claims Denis In Egypt, the fish that was caught from the high seas and in Turkish Denis any sea or sea
After several days I was able to deliver the concept I want only look for the old Arabic word or the original will find them understand you, for example, the butcher in Turkish means Alqasab is the original name of the Arabian Peninsula and so on

Of course, it was not possible to be in Turkey and in Istanbul and do not visit the mosque of Sultan Ahmed and Hagia Sophia, the real interlocutors. You feel that you are in Tahrir Square or Ataba Square, Egyptians everywhere, and Arab, Egyptian and Syrian families all speak Arabic and children flying everywhere with games, I felt I had left Egypt
On the way to Aminino, you find the Tubani Palace as in the picture and the tram line passes next to it, of course, a pleasure to walk around these monuments and the capital police building in Tomsina strong (did not see the pictures /
And of course during the journey of Taksim Square and Taksim Street, it is necessary to ride the old tram with a single vehicle, an ancient antique pleasure not described in the two-kilometer street walk by the old means and of course possible to ride the public transport card Istanbul Cart
After that I decided to visit the Jawahar Mall as I read about the mall and the presence of a large number of shops inside and on my way to it stood a little in the field of Aminino and entered the Egyptian market during my walk in the market met with a young man of Egypt working in a commercial store and told me the news of the market and of course I was looking for the shop Mohammed Effendi coffee Famous at the entrance of the market smell of the last of the minimum kilo by 30 pounds, but Ben Brazilian magnificence Genuine crushed in front of you and roasted in front of you and crowds of all nationalities
In Jawhar Mall you find all the famous brands and all the famous shops Mango and Gifangi and others but the most important Turkish shops for the sale of clothes for adults and toys and there is a famous shop by all the child is the name smk and there is a terrible reduction of nearly 50% and found a lot of clothes and gift for my children and prices so amazing that dress for my child Of the famous Turkish Waikiki brand at a price of only 12 liras, or $ 6