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We walked on the carpeted floor with our shoes in the
plastic bag held in our hands while appreciating the grand interior.
It’s free to enter blue mosque but we made a small donation at the exit.
On our way back to pension for nap, we stopped at Arasta Bazaar for some
shopping & photographing. Arasta Bazaar is right behind Blue mosque
which was used to be stables.
‘Konnichiwa, come on in’, the carpet sellers invited us to their shops
anxiously. Here, we saw many shops selling carpets, souvenirs, iznik
tiles, scarf etc.
Many locals were having tea with a cute traditional (little
tulip-shaped) tea glass. Ernie & I couldn’t resist the temptations.
‘Apple tea or Turkish tea?’, ‘What is the difference?’, ‘Apple tea is
tourist tea’
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‘Ok, give us 2 glasses of apple tea please.’
Each glass of tea comes with 2 cubes of sugar lumps on the saucer & a
tiny spoon. The tea tasted very nice with the apple flavor. Both of us
began to get addicted to apple tea since then.
This is the apple tea I get addicted to. I even bought a set of tea
glass home. It’s very easy to get a glass of tea everywhere in Turkey.
Turkish tea is Turks favorite drink.
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