Fezinating Istanbul
May 28th 2009 We arrived in Istanbul the way everybody should arrive. On a train. At a station that had a welcome lounge for the Orient Express. And there was a guy with a fez! (although that was the one and only fez-wearing guy we saw in Turkey).
You can't help being impressed by Istanbul. Just that name conjures up images of grandeur and mystery, monarchs and assassins, east and west. Its a place o
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