Walk in Bebek 2.0

As our cleaning woman (yes we have one now coming every two week) came home early this morning today, I had to leave the premises so I wouldn't be alone with her.

After dropping Ekin to work, I decided to head toward Bebek and have breakfast at Bebek Café.
Then I decided to wait for the traffic to calm down as I wanted to cross the bridge to Asia to get a haircut so I started to walk in Back streets of Bebek.

First let me tell you more about this district. It is one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Istanbul. It is located on the European shores of the Bosphorus and is surrounded by other wealthy districts such as Arnavutköy. "Bebek" means "Baby".
You can find a lot of historical buildings as it was a popular residential district during the Ottoman Empire.

Take a look at the older posts to see other photos of Bebek (here and here).

Bebek, main street going North.

Searching Day

Today, our friend Sibel was looking for a new apartment, so we tagged along to help her in her choices. We visited 9 different places. 7 of them were crappy, the floors weren't straight, the walls weren't straight, etc. We usually say that the architect is from the black sea.

Oreo is getting bigger












On the way to the first place, Sibel brought us to this new place called Burger Bar in Istiniye that makes those real American burgers. It's hard to find a good one in here and it's nice to have one once in a while.









I didn't take any pictures of the buildings or apartments we visited, just some views from them.










































As an animal lover, I spotted right away this small lizard in the bushes. I use to catch them and study them when I was in the U.S.