Long hot and sticky start to our tour

There were two things that made the start to our first day less than ideal - the 6.30am wake up call and the fact that Bryan had the dreaded tummy bot in the night. Fortunately we had pills with us and they did help but he had hardly slept so was feeling none too good in the heat, and long periods of standing that is part of this kind of tour. We managed the Topkapi palace which is impressive but had to dip out on the blue mosque, then managed the Hagia Sophia which is probably not spelt right. Very impressive but a bit too hot to fully appreciate it. The day ended with a very nice 90 minute boat ride on the Bosphorus which was a lovely way to see the European and Asian sides of Istanbul in the shade with the wind in your face.
Back in the hotel the cleaner chose today to not make up our beds and not replenish our water bottles. Obviously not our day.
Never mind, Gallipolis tomorrow and hopefully we will both be firing on all cylinders.