"Pick Istanbul for its beauty and Turkish baths
Posted Wednesday, Mar. 02, 2011
By Sarah Brubaker
sbrubaker@star-telegram.com
An attendant guided me to a basin, where I was expected to sit and sweat for 15 or 20 minutes. I was wearing my bathing suit and I'd been given a plaid cotton cloth to wrap over it. I looked around the room and noticed that I was one of the more conservatively dressed women there, which surprised me because I was in a Turkish bathhouse in Istanbul, and in some parts of the city the women are almost fully covered -- with only their eyes peeking out -- in public."
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