Masallah!! -she's all good (apparently)

Short and sweet tonight. I've walked all day and am sore. My knees are sore, my calf muscles are sore, my shoulders and back are sore.
I was going to go to the Bizaar... that was the plan, but being a typical bloke who can find there way without a map I never actually made it. I ended up at the bridge over the Golden Horn and thought I'd cross and have a look at a tower. Yet again I thought it would be easy to find being so big... but I missed it also. I got distracted with all the interesting things I was seeing so just kept walking, and walking, and walking. For about another 3 hours. Most of it was completely non touristy.
Cool things to note-
1. After climbing a hill on this tiny street past shanty type houses, and a building with fluid flowing out that looked surprisingly like urine, I stumbled onto a film crew filming what looked to be a turkish version of 'The Bill'.
2. As silly as it sounds, I was amazed that when you say weird words like 'Mahebe', people actually know what you're talking about, as if they use this word everyday. Amazing. I saw this one old bloke and said 'Mahebe' - hello with a big smile. He returned the greeting joyously and than continued chatting for a bit. I was disappointed to have to tell him in english that I could only speak english. We had a bit of a charades conversation after that. Thanks to Dave for the vocab and Di for many games of pictionary charades.
3. Met a nice carpet salesman.
4. Discovered Turks have shops and malls a lot like ours, and noone bugs you there.
5. Turkish mothers speak the same language to babies as Australian mothers.
6. Turkish people are really nice.