We're also planning our April trip to Istanbul and we may end up staying at the Empress Zoe Hotel. It's at the top end of the mid range hotels in the Lonely Planet book for Turkey. It's not cheap at nearly 140 Euros a night for the top level room but it looks very nice! We've got ten days to spend so we may travel to the Asian part and spend a few days there.
Yesterday I participated in the annual Terry Fox run. It was fun and my back held up. Actually I feel much better since seeing a chiropractor for the past month. The run this year was bigger than last year. It was for a great cause and in my view Terry Fox was one of the greatest Canadians who ever lived.
On the weekend we received in our newspaper a nifty magazine full of photos taken of Abu Dhabi from the air. Now I know why there was a helicopter that flew around for a few days in December. The online article shows some of the photos and our apartment building is one building away from the big blue one (tallest in the city) in many of the pictures. It's the headquarters for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, which is apparently has the world's richest sovereign wealth fund.
Last bit of news is that apparently negotiations were, or still are, going about awarding contracts for the city's new souq. They're either digging a heck of a deep hole and/or they're taking their sweet time with the construction. It looks like nothing has happened with that massive site since we moved here.
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