Istanbul Galata Tower | Street Art | Our Last Evening in Turkey | SAW Airprot
on this episode of torres journeys it's our last week in istanbul we spend time next to the bosphorus take a walk through istanbul's art neighborhood before going to galata tower we also share with you the empty streets of istanbul as the weekend lockdowns continue all on this episode of torres journeys we're down here by the uh by the palace but you can see they have big checkpoints everywhere not a lot of traffic and the police around teksim square is big time you have to excuse my shakiness sometimes according to police not something they want you to do but up here you may not be able to hear it but there is a helicopter right there and the helicopter's been flying around for now probably about three hours and we'll just fly around circle around and just stay and i don't know what they are positioning to do but again having these police checkpoints is normal in our travels we came along several of them they'll pull you over they will check your id they sometimes will ask for a driver's license and like here comes this car so they will run out to get it and you'll have to explain why you are on the road they even check the taxis so it's not uncommon for them to see who's in the car buses are running that one has nobody on it so the city is the city is trying to stay awake as best as they can and actually leaving our immediate neighborhood today they actually had no they don't have just one or two police together they always have swarms swarms of them and they're all dressed differently some are like anyways but they were checking everybody leaving the neighborhood what you were where you going your id everything they have a lot of undercover and they have ones with vests and so definitely a wide variety of enforcement out so now if you're at taksim square you can take the funicular down and you'll come out right here then to my right you'll see the cat you'll see the mosque and about 150 meters is the castle so you can easily access it using the funicular from taksim square well we came here to another restaurant that anthony bourdain had had breakfast at called kale cafe and restaurant it overlooks the water with the bridge but unfortunately uh because of the situation it's closed so we're kind of just going to hang out here for a while by the water and the sunshine our last day in istanbul oh we've just been walking around you can see there's just not a lot going on there are tourists out and you can kind of tell everyone's just kind of looking what to really do they are going to the museums they are going places but you can definitely sense that there is a little quietness going on we are just going to go to the ferry maybe see if we can take a ferry or just kind of check out what we can do on our last day one of our favorite little shops to go to is migros once we're back at this bus stop we are now going to walk to galata tower up up up and away yeah stairs this is an up-and-coming neighborhood tucked between two other districts that's famous for its antique stores this quirky neighborhood is fun to explore with its windy streets that lead one to another stairs and small hills and an antique shop on every other corner so this is the ticket office took up the tower the tickets are 30 right now are they 30 right now this is what you want to see back in the day let's check it out this is looking back towards taksim square see the boats moving look at that so now we will go up from the seventh floor to the tower we can walk outdoors all right look at all of these that's the pivot the famous avenue they go and they take pictures looking back at the tower further down is where they watch the sunset or that way of course here you have the european side that goes over across the asian continent earlier we were over there and we walked zigzag all the way through here walk through here walk down there ended up here this is where all the big ships come in go all the way up to the black sea after viewing the galata tower julie and i started walking back to our hotel to take it easy until our flight this evening if you ever been to istanbul and we're on independent avenue you have seen it packed full of people today full of police and a few tourists we have no idea why it's closed today at all but they say it'll be open tomorrow this is a saturday afternoon about 3 30. every entrance to teksim square and the boulevard are barricaded and several several police officers standing around sitting around but by now you think it's kind of eerie yeah i've been traveling for a year and four months now in covid season kind of what we expect yeah we kind of get used to it there are more than 10 people who feel claustrophobic now yeah so you can see here they just have all of them barricaded off barricaded off this is the new nike building going in we clear out some of the stuff they still have enough and we're ready we have a new bag but it's actually for the duffel bag because it has wheels oh okay airport time six o'clock and we're on the bus and we are headed to the airport so julie and i are at the airport we weighed our bags these weigh about 11 each that's just at 20. and this one's at 24. almost 25. we stopped off at mcdonald's real quick to get an iced mocha and julie is getting a latte so at the airport they want you to make sure your masks up make sure you maintain social distancing and all these other nonsensical things did you try it yet no not yet you don't want to sit on the floor with me i have a white pants i squote nice so we have about another 40 minutes or so before they'll allow us to check in our flights at just after midnight but we made to the airport no major things and here we are so i'll stop rambling so you would think julie and i have not seen mcdonald's in like ages large fries big coke you know anymore i'm not scared so much of missing my flights because i've learned to take evening flights but where i'm actually always anxious no longer anxious security either i'm actually anxious if they're always going to charge or catch us on baggage excess fees and today yeah we're always right there or close but the lady today we're five kilograms over and she's like just take some stuff out and if you kind of like play with it long enough she's just like okay it's fine and it was two kilos over and she let it go but now we have a couple extra things to carry but they don't check our carry-on bags we've actually had them do that before with other flights and other airlines so we're gonna enjoy our mcdonald's french fries and wait for our flight just have fun at the airport for now well we are at the gate waiting for our bus to take us to our plane yes what's that probably every three minutes thanks to the mix of fresh air supplied from outside and the hepa filters on board all our aircraft that are efficient to filter viruses we this has been our time here in istanbul so they say goodbye and make sure to subscribe and like our channel and follow us on 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2021-07-12 12:34
