Exploring Edirne

Time to sleep in a bit… Breakfast was goat cheese, tomatoes, olives and bread. We did a mini walking tour around Edirne, seeing the Ali Pasa Arasta (covered street with shops), Mehmet Pasa Hamami (Turkish baths), Ucserefeli Cami (Mosque), Rustem Pasa’s Caravanserai (now a hotel), the Bedestan (built by Mehmet I).

We got to see the Eski Cami mosque (built by Beyazit I in 1411)>

(Photo courtesy of Flickr)
and the Selimiye Camii (built in 1569 by Sinan, the most famous Ottoman architect). It is a classical Ottoman mosque- and probably one of the most beautiful we’ve ever seen. Outside the mosque was a shopping arcade- where we found our first “Ataturk” plate- we bought 2 of them (one with Ataturk, the other with Ataturk, Ali and Melavana).

We took the car and drove to a riverside (Emirgan Riverside Bar on the Meric Nehri River) restaurant for beers. Dinner back at the hotel