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Mine is absolutely fascinating. She picked my star sign and showed me parts of Istanbul , Relatable and Fenner forgive spellings that were absolutely unique. When I return next year I will be doing a tour with her on Sinan the great architect. Such passion and how endearing is she with cats.
This was our second tour with Mine in 2 days, the first one was the Bazaar, Spice Bazaar and hidden Backstreets tour - highly recommended. This one was different, Balat and Fener being unknown to us but the description of the tour was fascinating so we took the plunge. How pleased we were to do so. Mine is meticulous with her planning. We were messaged the day before (as per previous tour) for meeting place confirmation with a Google maps location - highly reassuring and making travel to the point easy. As it turned out, we arrived early, getting a quick lunch in advance of the afternoon’s tour and we texted her to say where we were, she then came to our location to prevent rushing our food and starting the tour on a relaxed and efficient footing. Mine’s knowledge was fantastic. Her commentaries of items / sights in between the bigger stops were truly enlightening and reinforced her confidence with the subjects being discussed. We can’t recommend Mine highly enough. If you’re interested in this tour - go for it - you’ll enjoy…..
We had two nice days with Mine, and both were excellent. She was prompt, friendly, and very knowledgable. We learned far more about Istanbul in these two days than we ever could have on our own. I would highly recommend Mine to all guests visiting her city.
Benoit was knowledgeable about the non touristy areas we went to, is clearly curious and fascinated with architecture, the local culture, and history. It was fun and relaxing to share a less touristic type of walk around tour of Istanbul. We thoroughly enjoyed our day.