"The past lives on as Agatha Christie’s top hotel reopens
Monday, 18th October 2010
The completion of the Pera Palace revamp was the biggest travel event of the year. Zoe Strimpel went to Istanbul to celebrate
Zoe Strimpel
ONCE you’ve been to Istanbul, Paris, Berlin and even London seem somehow paltry, a bit small-scale and even a touch banal. The enormity and seductiveness of the Bosphorous, especially at sunset, and the mesmeric mixture of ancient history, Ottoman splendour and Islamic architecture beguile every traveller."
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