It is another nice sunny day and we decided to explore the other side called Taksim. Diana had her shoes polished and the shoe cleaner told us that Sadam Husain was executed in the morning. I felt that it is not too good and it might create some problems on our Middle East journey. We did not have breakfast so our first stop was at the "Burek Salon" where we had a very good cheese and potato burek. We spoke to a man who told us that he has retired from military. He has visited and liked all of our countries. We crossed the Galata bridge and walk up the small hilly street to the Galata tower. After a bit of sight seeing we went to the Sufi museum and met there with our friend. It was the official place used for the Sufi ceremonies and the atmosphere was much better than at the train station. We were again curious what will happen. This time there were 10 dervishes and one master. Some of them were also older. When they started to spin it created again a very mystical atmosphere.
After the show we went to the Taksim square. The atmosphere was quite different than in Sultanahmet, I finally felt that Im in a bigger city and used my Czech expression " tady to zije ". There were many local people walking down the main street. We stopped at Ara cafe named after a famous Turkish photographer Ara Guler. His office is right next door and there were many of his photographs in the cafe. We also looked at his pictures of Istanbul in the book. The Taksim square was quite alive with live music and video and laser show. But it felt again quite peaceful. We took the ride back with an old tram. On our way back we stopped and made some pictures with fisherman at the bridge. We were quite hungry and stopped again at the "Burek salon". The man was happy to see us again and gave us free burek. Stuffed and happy we went to sleep around midnight.
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