Great photos Doug! We'd love to get back to Turkey one of these days. Your pre-cruise experience sounds fantastic. We spent 4 nights in a wonderful boutique hotel in the old part of Istanbul (Sultanahmet) with roof top restaurant with a fabulous view and our room had a large balcony. Unfortunately we didn't make it to Cappadocia so loved reading about it.

Jackie, when we were in Istanbul in April Tom and I both had a Turkish bath. It was definitely different than anything we had done before but after all was said and done I would do it again. After getting "scrubbed" and very clean, it all ended with a 30 minute massage which was the best part. Tom wasn't as crazy about the whole ordeal. Being that it is a Muslim country he had a man which he was not use to. He was a bit out of his element as here in the USA he always has a female masseuse.