I Heart Istanbul
August 29th 2011 Istanbul is an awesome city. Probably in my top 3 favorite cities. Maybe even eclipsing my prior favorite, Paris. It has two of my favorite features of any great city - trams and ferries. And a completely wacky mixture of East and West and rich and poor and religious and secular.
Coming to Istanbul was an enormous culture shock for me. I suppose it is all relative, but when I came from Jor
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