Asian Lunch

The ferry parks at Anadolu Kavagi, on the Asian side, for 3 hours or so, and there we had a leisurely lunch and stroll around the village.

Restaurateurs welcome the ferry and it propsective diners

Figuring they were all about the same, we

stopped at the first restaurant we came to,

this place, and chose a sea-side table on the

2nd terrace

Our view of the "port" and our vessel, the imaginatively-

named Istanbul 9

Menu: you can have this fish, or this fish, or

this fish...

Or the land-lubbers' selection; I opted for the fixed price deal:

nice Turkish salad, fried mussels, and a grilled fillet of fish;

and coffee; Vicki had the chicken shish and frites

After lunch, we strolled; at the bakery I bought some local

anchovy bread--actually a corn meal cake with olives,

onions, garlic, and anchovies; I don't think the inscription

over the oven says "give us our daily bread"...

The mosque and its cemetery with turbaned tombstones

Thought about hiking up to the Yoros Castle ruins; but

decided not

The cruise back to Istanbul was uneventful. Same stuff, reverse order.