Sinop/Trabzon, Turkey I have just visited two cities on the north coast of Turkey on the Black Sea. I’ll dispense with Trabzon first. It is a fairly large city that was founded by merchants from neighboring Sinop in about 1,000 BC. A walk around the central district today confirmed that it is still a city of merchants. The streets are crowded with mostly small shops selling everything from food and clothing to electronic equipment and jewelry. Many of the women, especially middle aged and older, wear head scarves and are covered to the shoes. Younger women are not as conservatively dressed although even many of them wear colorful headscarves. The men wander the streets arm in arm and smoking is prevalent. It was a rainy, cloudy day so I opted not to travel out
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