Istanbul Turkey

I flew from Frankfurt, and landed in istanbul. At the Airport, remember to buy Visa stamps for you passport BEFORE you go to the line for imigration. it is a long line, but it usualy goes fast.
I came to the City around 1700 and the trafic was horrible. because of the bridges over Bosboros are to smal, it will always be a "trafic jam" there during rush hours.
I wanted to go to the Asian side, so I was told to go to the fast boats at ____ and take the boat to Boscantie. I went with the Taxi, it costed me 15 Lire, but ofcourse the Taxi driver could not give me back on 50 lire I had to give him overprice in Euro. If you want to take taxi to the Asian side from the airport, it will cos you from 60-80 lire.
I lived at a apartment hotel in Bagdad Street in Istanbul. It cost around 80Euro pr night, but it is a fantastic nice place to stay. It is like an apartment, with living room, bedroom, (1,2 or 3) you can choose) The place name is Marmara Appartements, _________ I will fill inn the web address later. It's in the middle of the bagdad street, with restaurants, cafe's and bars al over. Marmara apartment is al little tricky to find, cause you cannot see it directly from the street, but it is in tha same building as the restaurant "taps" who is one of the "inn places" for local young people.
On the Asian side of Istanbul it is absolutley safe to be. No cheaters, no hookers, no overpriced restarants, just lake any normal big city in the world. Those who goes to Istanbul, should raly try the Asian side. espacialy for living. Go on the tourist places on european side in the day, and take the boat over to the Asian side in the night, and be on a much safer place than on the Europena side.