Travel Europe: Six things in … Istanbul
Published on Tuesday October 23, 2012
ISTANBUL, TURKEY—Been there. Done that. Bought the rug. That’s what I thought, after a two-day stopover on a cruise four years ago.
Yet so many people rave about Istanbul, I wondered if they were simply smokin’ from a different hookah, or if perhaps I had missed something during my whirlwind tour of the “must see” sites: the Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, Dolmabahce Palace. It was architectural overload, like staring at the sun. If I had been invited to gaze upon one more mosaic, however beautiful, I thought I might bleed from my eyes.
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