Izmir is Turkey's third largest city with 4 million people and where we were for a few days around Christmas before heading up to Istanbul. There were a few neat things here but really it's just seems like a big sprawling working class city. It was around 65 and sunny during the day which is much different from a New England Christmas but it still got pretty chilly when the sun went down.
Here's the clock tower (the main symbol of Izmir) at sunset. There are old ladies selling sunflower seeds all around the clock tower.
You can find the eye behind the Izmir sign just about everywhere in any form you can think of at souvenir shops.
We stumbled across a Turkish musical instrument museum that was really cool. They gave us an ipod that had mp3's of all the different instruments being played.
The view from our hotel room. That is a giant four lane rotary outside. At night, it was all lit up. At rush hour it was a mess.
For fun we took a public ferry from one part of Izmir to another and then back. These seagulls follow the ferry the whole 15 minute trip and fight each other for bread thrown from the passengers. Chrissy joined in on the fun.
And, ferry selfie!
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