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first day in TURKEY!
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Apr 30, 2025
feeling very blessed to be here! Here is a vlog from my first day here in Turkey, enjoy :) Vlog 1 from Turkey - check out the charity clothing: https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/jay-palfrey - Thank you to my amazing Patreons for supporting this channel :) Become a Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=24492598 Abdullatif, Abdurahman, Anila, Aysh, Fauzi, Halit, Hannah, J Benyamin, Kaynat, Maha, Mariam, Mohammed, Muna, Niyasha, Rhyad, Rose, Salma, Sara, Sarah. A, Sarah. M, M7mdalsa7an and a massive thankyou to: KHALED A, NUERY, HERI, HATEM, ALI, YAMAN, HUSSAIN, KHALID H, SAIF :) Useful Links: AIR BNB DISCOUNT: https://www.airbnb.co.uk/c/jayp3509?c... 2 months free Skillshare: skillshare.eqcm.net/jaypalfreytravel Email me: jaypalfreycontact@gmail.com
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Are we going to focus? Good morning everybody and welcome to my first day here in Istanbul
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I've been to Istanbul before but I haven't really recorded it so today we're going to go and explore
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this incredibly beautiful city and I will take you guys along with me. I'm really really excited
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I'm a little bit tired as always so coffee is the first stop but I can't tell you how happy I am to
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be back. As soon as I landed in the airport I just felt like I was back in a second home and
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I love it. So let's have a great day. Let's go and explore and I'll take you guys along with me
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All right, you guys after a really quick metro ride and a really quick walk down
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I'm now at Sultanahmet Square. This is where the majority of the tourists come
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but as you can probably see around me there's no one around i think i'm the only tourist i am the
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only tourist i've seen maybe i'll see some more inside the square but i'm so excited to be back
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this is also one of my favorite spots in istanbul you've got the blue mosque the haggia sofia and
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a lot of street food vendors so maybe we'll get some food and it's just a great place just to hang
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out and you see all the locals as well hanging out which is really really nice
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It's a really strange feeling to be honest because I don't think I've ever seen Istanbul
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this quiet. I've been here multiple times and it's never ever been this quiet. There
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is no one around and I am still just the only tourist here which is great for me because
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I get to see what the locals are up to and yeah but it's really really strange
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Have a look Okay, to start the day I'm gonna run into the Hagia Sophia
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Every time I come to Istanbul the queues are always huge and currently there is no one in the queue
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So right now is the best time for me to go I've been inside once when I was 17 or 16 so many many years ago
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But I'm so excited to go back in it's a beautiful building and I'll show you when I get inside
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We have Okay, safe to say
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I am completely blown away by what's inside of it I like I said I've been here once before so many years ago maybe six years ago
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five years ago and it still just hasn't just the awe and the beauty inside of here is just insane this place is the
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meeting of multiple different religions and you can really tell inside it's
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architecturally insanely beautiful and the colors and the Islamic scriptures on the walls and just insane look at this I never seen Christianity and Islam meet so incredibly in one place It just
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honestly a masterpiece. It looks insane. How incredible was that? I'm not a big history guy but that was just insane. Over 500 years old
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and as you saw it was just amazing. I think it's time to grab some food. It's a few hours
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later after I left and I've been pretty hungry and sleepy like him so yeah let's
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grab some food I'll probably get something off the street and then we'll
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eat big later so let's get some food and then I'll take you guys into the blue mosque
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you guys know I couldn't come to Istanbul without eating menaman for the first meal in Turkey
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so yeah I'm really excited so that was incredible as always it was such a good first meal back in Turkey I
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can actually record me eating it because there were planes to lean beyond and it
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would be copyrighted so I'm not gonna do that now I'm gonna head to the Blue Mosque
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yeah I can't I can't really tell you how happy I am to be back I just feel so at home
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Incredible. Every time I come back I just feel so blessed to be able to come back here
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So peaceful and quiet I love it. It's under a lot of construction since the first time I came but still such a blessing
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Thank you
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Wow okay Instantly relaxed after I left there Every time I come here I just I just feel so peaceful
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My heart and just... I feel very relaxed and I feel amazing
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So, yeah. The gardens around this place are just beautiful too. It's starting to get busier now
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I love that they have all of the signs outside as well just for anyone who's learning about Islam
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like I am as well you can you can see all of the posters just explaining even like the five
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pillars of Islam articles of faith prophet Muhammad peace be upon him just all the information that
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you need and things like that it's just really really nice just to see
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that people could come here and learn about Islam and I think it's great
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Okay, I've done my Sultanahmet Square now, I'm going to head towards the water where the Galata Bridge is
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We'll head there, I've got to pick up some 35mm film for my film camera because tonight, now the sun is coming out
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I'm going to go to Ouskara which is on the other side of the water, other side of the Bosphorus, to shoot the sunset
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And I'll obviously take you guys along with me. And yeah, so let's head towards the water, maybe grab some food as well and see what happens
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The streets around Istanbul are probably one of the main reasons why I love just wandering
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around the city, especially when it's this quiet. I'm the only tourist I've seen and this
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city honestly, if you're a photographer, it's just a photographer's paradise because of
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all the incredibly old buildings I just showed you. This street itself is just amazing. So
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if you're into photography, this is the place for you. so i just met one of the viewers of this channel so great to meet you um thank you for coming to
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say hi it's so nice to see the faces behind the people who watch this channel all right guys it's
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a bit later in the day now i've just been de-sweating in my room it's really really hot
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today and the sun is just coming out and right now is a great time to go to uskida to watch the
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sunset so that is what we're gonna do we'll go and grab the ferry across the
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Bosphorus and go and see it I'm so excited to see Istanbul during sunset so
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let's go I've made it to Uskarø which is where a lot of the locals hang out to watch the sunset
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so that's exactly what I'm going to do. The light is beautiful. I'm so happy to be back
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here. I've been to this side of the Bosphorus a couple of times but I never get to spend
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that long here and since I'm in Turkey for quite a while I do have time to spend a little
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really windy so I hope you can hear me but a lot of people keep asking me questions in Turkish I'm not sure whether I'm coming across as Turkish or
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the mask is hiding my facial features I'm not really sure but it's so nice down here
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I hope you can hear me anyway. We're gonna stay here for sunset. You can see Maidens Tower just there
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and the sun is setting just there Alright you guys, I've just come down to the waterfront now and it's absolutely beautiful. Look at this
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I don't think there could have been a better way to end my first day here. I just had some food as well
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I put the picture on the screen. It was okay. I'm still really full for lunch but I'm just playing a way of just the power of saving waterfront
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Thank you
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Thank you
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Thank you
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One insanely beautiful end to the first day in this incredible country
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I am so excited to be wrong. I can't let me tell you how happy I am and just to end it with that sunset just filled
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me with so much happiness. So I wish I could just bottle up this feeling and take it with me everywhere I go
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I never experienced happiness like it until I'm in Turkey and yeah I love it so much
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I'm going to head back to the hotel now and I'm going to relax so I hope you guys enjoyed this video
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and I will see you in the next video. The next video is really exciting I'm filming with one
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of my favourite Turkish bloggers so I hope you're excited for that. Keep an eye on my Instagram if
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you want to see who it is before the video post so until then stay safe, stay happy, see you soon
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Thank you
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