Small pharmacy near Kabataş tramway station. Get your medicine then take s walk along the…read morequayside. Cafés are nearby. Just across the street at a little Park.

Gayle and I recently returned from a Viking River Cruise that started in Vienna Austria and ended…read morein Bucharest Romania. We then extended our vacation for a couple days to sightsee in Istanbul. Starting at around Day 3 of our trip, we came down with a common cold, with symptoms including running nose and a wet cough. There was no fever or fatigue, and we otherwise felt fine. But we did end up going to a pharmacy at every stop to purchase the local version of cough drops and Mucinex. During the cruise, that usually meant a line of fellow travelers who were experiencing similar symptoms. This Istanbul pharmacy was a couple minutes walk from our hotel near the Hagia Sophia Mosque and served us well, both in terms of options and help at the counter. A couple packages of Kleenex helped as well.