Mosques & Minarets - Seven days in the City of Seven Hills
May 14th 2012 Well what a difference seventy-two hours can make: Friday evening I'm finishing work at the Ben Mhor Hotel in Grantown-on-Spey (in the Highlands of Scotland), and by monday afternoon I'm touching down in Istanbul, the former capital of both the Byzantine (Roman) and Ottoman (Turkish) empires. And if ever my inner traveller needed some shock therapy to awaken me from my self-imposed slumber
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