Trip 12: Post 2c ….. Day 2 = 10th May ISTANBUL Intercontinental Hotel + General Area

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POST 4: Day 2 = 10th May ISTANBUL: InterContinental Istanbul Hotel … The Public Garden Next Door

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As I get up early every morning, I was outside for two days before breakfast at 8.00 am. See the photographs below I took of the general area around the hotel. By 9.00 am we would all assemble in the hotel lobby to be transferred by a colour coordination group theme onto two buses which then took us to different places Istanbul to see Byzantium history and art.

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Across the main road from our hotel were several other important hotels. One that was very nicely presented with very attractive landscaping was the Divan Hotel. I show a few photographs of this hotel.

…. The immediate entry into the Divan Hotel …..

….. there were really nice eye-catching garden beds …. it was coming into

summer there so flowers were out everywhere …..

….. there was big stone tower built in the front garden …. it created a real

eye-catching presence …..

…. an eye-catching garden bed of pansies …

…. an eye-catching garden bed of petunias …

…. nicely planted pots of shrubs ….

…. Formal trimmed hedges creates a sense of order and belonging amidst the informality of the rest of the garden … this is symbolic of life ….. how to have order amidst the unexpected dimensions of life ….