Into Turkey

We crossed over into Turkey at Malko Tarnovo. Customs/immigration both leaving Bulgaria and entering Turkey took a while, but amounted to nothing unreasonable. We had read that the Turkish often require you to buy additional auto insurance; but nothing was said. They looked us over, sold us the visas ($20 USD only), stamped our passports, and let us through. We have crossed many borders in the past two years, but this one had the most striking differences in geography...from the largely deciduous mountain forests of Bulgaria, over a hill, and immediately onto the semi-arid rolling hills of Thrace and Turkey.

Plenty of development in Turkey too; no apartment complex ever very far 
from a mosque...this near Kirklareli

Today's wedding procession photo

First Turkish shopping experience, at the Kipa in Kirklareli; pretty much like a 
European supermarche; except, no pork

In Kirklareli

So we drove on to Istanbul; this is on the out-skirts, 12-15 miles from the 
center; 15 million inhabitants

Central Istanbul (here in the Sultanahmet, old city) is a pedestrian's paradise; 
the traffic generally grid-locked on the smaller streets

Finally, on the Kennedy Caddesi, Sultanahmet, en route to our "campground," 
looking out onto the Sea of Marmares, a 4-master