Our Trip: The End of the Journey

Here are the last of the photos from our final day in Turkey:

City Walls

city walls

City Walls

Atop the City Walls

atop the old city wall,
looking out over the new city

A Plaque to Commemorate Breaching the Wall

a plaque commemorating the breaching
of Constantinople’s wall

Istanbul

a side street near the Patriarchate

St. Stephen's

St. Stephen’s Bulgarian Orthodox Church;
it was cast in Vienna, floated down the Danube on barges,
and bolted together in Istanbul: an iron church.

St. Stephen's

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