View from the Golden Horn Bridge

During my stay in Istanbul, I would find myself going to the Golden Horn Bridge every single day. It is not just because bridge happens to be the closest metro station to my hotel, but it is also an cash machine center. There were around four machines set up here. This seems to be common in Türkiye where there would be clusters of cash machines for people to use. I assume that you would need quite a bit of cash since the largest denomination I have been dispensed is a hundred Turkish lira. If you want to go for a meal, you would need a least a hundred, although it is possible to find cheaper ones. This means that you would need a lot of cash when you go shopping. I don’t know how much people pay via card here but I suspect that the presence of numerous cash machines here would mean people need cash a lot.

Tower of the Golden Horn Bridge

The Golden Horn Bridge is one of several bridges which connect the old side of European Istanbul to the new side of European Istanbul. It is amazing to have to consider such things because that is because of the unique geography of the city of Istanbul where it is built right where Europe meets Asia. The Golden Horn here refers to the water which the bridge crosses. From the bridge you get a great view of this part of Istanbul. I was impressed at the size of the city and how they managed to build a city here in the first place considering how wide these waterways are. It isn’t as famous as the Bosphorous Strait which is even wider but I get to see the old part of European Istanbul and the new side of European Istanbul. I don’t even know what new means here since the new part of European Istanbul has some old structures as well.

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