Snowboarding Istanbul

I came more than week ago to visit my future hometown Istanbul. Of course I decided to take running shoes and some light sportswear. What I didn’t take with me were my x-country skis. I thought it will be something closer to 10 degrees (C) here. But on the contrary. There were more snow than in Southern Finland, where the winter has been worse in my adult life.

So hard snowfall here is not normal here. Therefore, the schools were closed and as a lot of problems with traffic occurred. However, the people also enjoyed the unexpected blizzard in many ways, like snowboarding in the park.

The two pictures were taken Feb 18th.