Turkey travel stories

Istanbul

After Cairo came my first visit to Istanbul. Before my visit my only images of Turkey were From Russia With Love: Kerim Bey running his Secret Service operation from the back of a rug shop, spying ...

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Greece and Turkey, September 1994

I had been in Greece no more than an hour and here I was already at a water-side café. On the table in front of me was a plate of olives, a piece of feta cheese, some bread and an Amstel beer. Bey...

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Central Turkey, 1989

We arrived in town quite early and immediately started looking for a hotel that we had heard about. We found it without much trouble and asked for a room. We were offered one at a rate that seemed ...

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Istanbul, 1982

I was surprised how dark the streets got at night. There were very few streetlights and absolutely no glowing windows to illuminate the way. I knew we were lost and was beginning to worry that we w...

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