Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
October 20th 2005 I arrived in Istanbul the morning of the 14th after an all night bus ride from Thessaloniki. My first "real" border crossing went smoothly enough, as Turkey is kind enough to allow tourists to buy their entry visas at border checkpoints for $20.
After negotiating my way out of the most massive bus station I've ever had the (dis)pleasure of passing through, I took a combination of metro and tra
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