- Istanbul is hilly!! It's like being back in our home city... just quite a bit sunnier. We're getting some good exercise walking around and pushing the buggy up and down the hills.
- Turkish people love babies - particularly blue eyed, ginger ones! When we were in London a couple of months ago, J tried desperately to make eye contact with someone on the Tube - but nobody was looking. Here, there's always someone on the Metro ready to smile at him.
- There's a lot of concrete buildings, and often with fairly narrow streets. Stating the obvious maybe, but I'm new to being a big city girl and I've never lived in such a built up area before.
- There's history around every corner. On a walk yesterday, we walked past not one, but two Ottoman palaces.
- And anywhere where you can buy an ice cream from the corner shop for 1 TL (which is about 25p) is good with me!
And my favourite Turkish word so far? Bebek arabası, which is the Turkish word for pushchair and literally means "baby car".
