Day 143 to 145 Istanbul

Back in Istanbul again, this time I arranged a Pillow fight on Taksim square… beforehand I had many people warning me that I would get arrested if I did this, and that they torture people in Turkish prisons etc. The thing is that Taksim square is a place where they hold many political demonstrations… my pillow fight had about 150 people attending so it was a pretty big crowd… in the beginning the police seemed quite nervous (and police in Turkey have machine-guns… not a small pistol as in most places I have been to). But once they saw we where only hitting each other with the pillows they calmed down… afterwards we went to a club and had a really fun party…

For those of us that know Swedish this is a pretty funny name for a flower-shop 😉

 

With some CS:ers before the Pillow fight

 

Turkish tea… really something special (and observe the little man made of sugar in the back 😉

 

The actual pillow fight 😀       

CS:ers from the pillow fight

More pillow fight…

 

Some people posing for an “after” picture 😀

 

Yeay… LOADS of people fighting!

Me with a bag full of cotton after the fight… it took us about 60 seconds to clean up the whole place…. and I think we filled up about 6 bags of cotton 😀

 

Got a host that lived in a suit at a hotel, this was breakfast 😀

 

My host enjoying her breakfast

     

My backpack has a tendency to get bigger and bigger…