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City Portrait: Istanbul, Turkey

"Topkapi Palace"

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Turkey Picture by Thomas Driemeyer
Travel story: City Portrait: Istanbul, Turkey

GETTING THERE



At the end of October northern Europe starts getting chilly, but Istanbul stays warm well into November. We were lucky to have up to 23 degrees centigrade and blue skies every day. Getting to Istanbul from Berlin is cheap and fast: we paid 220 Euro per person with Germania, direct from Berlin TLX; the flight time was a little over two hours.



We had a really wonderful hotel, which I found in the Lonely Planet guidebook: the Askin... More

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