A Stopover to Check out Midas' Touch Before a Bosphorous Canal Cruise
March 25th 2009 Oh, I missed blogging about this stopover. On our way back to Istanbul, we did make this stopover . Not much to see, really, but the stories are good. The ancient kingdom of Phyrge and Gordioum, where legend claims Alexander the Great cut the proverbial Gordian Knot. A place where Gordious raised Midas , whose claim to fame, is his "Midas Touch". Midas, a peasant, who became King on the strengt
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