Me and my friend were in Istanbul for Ramadan. First I wasn’t too happy with the planning, since it felt sorta weird to go on holiday, which usually involves a lot of nice food, at a time when people are fasting. But actually it turned out great. At night, just before dusk, people would come out onto the streets and start stacking up on food, settling down on benches and in parks, or at the fair-like concoction next to the mosque. And then at sunset the mosque would call out it was time to eat. The athmosphere was great and it was an amazing sight to see all those people sitting around in front of the Blue Mosque.