"Memories of Istanbul
To commemorate the Smithsonian Presents Travels with Rick Steves magazine -- now on sale online, and at newsstands nationwide -- Rick is blogging about the 20 top destinations featured in that issue. One of those destinations is Istanbul.
I first visited Istanbul in the 1970s. Some of my earliest -- and most vivid -- memories of that trip are of the colorful locals. Scruffy kids sold cherry juice, and old men would grab huge cucumbers from wheeled carts, then peel, quarter, and salt them, and sell them for pennies. Traffic jams seemed to last all day...and drivers seemed to accept them as an excuse not to work"
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