Blog - Oneika the Traveller

Galata Tower

I think I mentioned before that the weather was terrible the whole time that we were in Istanbul. The grey skies and damp air made

Bazaar Bonanza

The icky weather in Istanbul provided the perfect opportunity of exploring the markets, known as bazaars here. I love these things, even though I tend

(Almost) ready to rejoin the living

I apologize for the lack of posts. I would have dutifully continued to document my Istanbul trip, but fate had another idea in mind- namely,

Our hotel in Istanbul

After a number of online searches on hotel booking sites, hours of scouring reviews on Trip Advisor, and intense perusal of hotel locations on Google

2011 and back in Hong Kong

I’m back in Hong Kong after a grueling cross-continental flight that took me from Berlin to Hong Kong, which included a plane change in Moscow.

Of Mosques and Men

Turkey is a predominantly Muslim country, so it comes as no surprise that its capital city, Istanbul, has an overwhelming number of mosques whose domes