Miss Travelette

Good news! We'll have a trip to Vienna soon! City of music and art... Exactly my cup of tea!!!
I've already started begging for the things to be O.K. so that the trip won't be delayed! Vienna, Budapest and Prag for 7 days is like a dream to me. So many exhibitions, so many galleries, Gothic buildings and many more... I know most of the people want to see Prag, but I've always wanted to go to Vienna - it's all because of my art love (or addiction...)

Considering I'll probably be there in June (but this may be delayed to July as well), I'll have looads loads to write here soon. I'll start with Vienna for sure, and go on with Budapest and Prag later on.

I recently visited the well-known tulip heaven we have in İstanbul, and it definitely was worth seeing!

Tulips remind me of Holland all the time, and seeing so many tulips together made me feel like I've been in Holland for a while, once more.

If you ever consider visiting the historically rich Turkish city İstanbul, I offer you to come before the summer, I mean in the middle of the spring, so that you may go and see those tulips with their extremely well-organised pattern.

Pinky red tulips from the garden - photo taken by me

There is a very famous plantation area in İstanbul, which is called 'Emirgan Korusu*' and the tulips I mention here are located in this area, distributed everywhere in a greatly wonderful order! Colours are dancing with each other and the sizes of the tulips are just surprisingly at the same height. No mistake can ever be done in this huge garden, they are absolutely perfect!

According to the historical information we have got, the first tulips were owned by the Ottoman Empire, and after the Ottomans gave some of these tulips out as a present to Holland, Holland started planting them. Now they are famous with their undeniably beautiful tulips and tulip gardens, while we have a few tulip gardens and no fame with tulips.