It's quite simple Rimms once you join CBF you become physic and are tuned in via our mental conductor The Venerable Wizard Scunner.
We also went into the pub mentioned, think the name draws you in.
We stayed around the corner to you in the Sirkeci Konak which is the sister Hotel to the Orient. If you go around they have a basement pool and sauna, a really good fish restaurant on street level and on the roof top, a restaurant and bar and also sun loungers. We had a room with a balcony looking directly on the park next to the Topkapi Palace and used to watch the parrots with homes in the bottom half of the trees and the storks right on the top.