To the Magnificent Land of the Turks
August 8th 2007 I watched the green Irish countryside fly by beneath me. It wasn’t long before darkness obliterated the view, so I pulled out my guide book for the Middle East and I turned to the section on Turkey and I started reading about Istanbul, a city I knew virtually nothing about. I quickly learned that the city had started its life as Byzantium in 667BC. From the banks of the Sea of Marmara, at the
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