"TRAVEL: DON'T MISS THE BOS
ISTANBUL HAS THE LOT -HISTORY, CULTURE, FOOD AND NIGHTLIFE
Iain Mayhew
I AM standing in the middle of the Bosphorus. That is to say, I am at the top of the Maiden's Tower - Kiz Kulesi - which, at various stages in its centuries-old career, has been a lighthouse, a fortress, a customs house and the hideout of evil Elektra in the Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.
It's like being stranded on a busy roundabout. Small yellow-funnelled ferries criss-cross the strait, scurrying under the bows of tankers and container ships as they thump up the Bosphorus towards the Black Sea ports."
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