Istanbul Contintent-straddling city serves up its own brand of beguiling Turkish delights
Saturday 8 November 2014
'Down." Along with an exaggerated hand gesture, I am bidden to lie flat on an enormous heated marble table in the centre of the humid, domed bathhouse.
With just thin cotton covering my modesty, I obey Karim, my stern white-haired masseur, before he sets about drenching me in cold water and scouring my skin head to toe with a cloth mitt.
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