Customized Istanbul City Tour – Fill it up and go…
It can be really enjoyable to use dolmus for customized Istanbul city tour. No privacy and space (sometimes) but definitely fun.
Just like all the rest of the world Istanbul got its share in the economic crisis at its beginning in the 1930s.By that time, people who used taxis to go to work or different places started using the public transport – trams instead, like the poorer people did.
The first minibus driver – the cook Halid…
Halid used to be a cook who changed his occupation with that of a taxi driver. His old profession stayed with him as a nickname, though. For some time, every morning and in the evening he would take a Jewish citizen of Istanbul from Nisantasi to Eminonu and the same way back. It cost 80 kurus (penny) one way (by that time it was the money enough for 5 breads or a chicken). One day the gentleman said to Halid, ‘Look, young man.
