One of the great perks of a good road trip is not knowing where you’ll stop along the way…just where you start and where you end (and sometimes, not even that!) So how about a 10-day cruise on a luxury ship where all you know is where it sails from and where it says farewell?
Two days and some more touring after our first food walking tour in Istanbul, we were ready for more, and set out on our second. This tour, like the first, was organized by Culinary Backstreets.
Every city has its monuments, its churches and palaces, its prominent squares and avenues—and every visitor can easily learn how to find them. That’s true, too, for the most famous or most tourist-oriented restaurants as well. But it’s not as easy to wander off the beaten path and find the truly typical local foods, and especially not so easy to know what’s what when you find it.
Near the entrance of Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace, once the home of the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, we found the residence of another “royal family,”
A visit to fabled Topkapi, imperial and administrative center of the Ottoman Empire for 400 years
On our first day in Istanbul, after arriving at 4:30 on a Sunday morning and heading straight to a nap we went for a walk
On our first day in Istanbul, after arriving at 4:30 on a Sunday morning and heading straight to a nap we went for a walk
On our first day in Istanbul, after arriving at 4:30 on a Sunday morning and heading straight to a nap we went for a walk
Two Swedish airports have found a new way to relieve departing travelers of their unneeded local currency. A bank of videogames, set up at Stockholm’s Arlanda and Goteborg’s Landvetter airports have been set up to accept any currency at all to play…
Last summer in Paris, we visited an exhibit at the Institute du Monde Arabe, featuring cars and artifacts of the Orient Express and its mystique. A significant part of the exhibit, given the venue, focused on the exotic spell it had for Europeans.
One of the great perks of a good road trip is not knowing where you’ll stop along the way…just where you start and where you end (and sometimes, not even that!) So how about a 10-day cruise on a luxury ship where all you know is where it sails from and where it says farewell?
Two days and some more touring after our first food walking tour in Istanbul, we were ready for more, and set out on our second. This tour, like the first, was organized by Culinary Backstreets.
Every city has its monuments, its churches and palaces, its prominent squares and avenues—and every visitor can easily learn how to find them. That’s true, too, for the most famous or most tourist-oriented restaurants as well. But it’s not as easy to wander off the beaten path and find the truly typical local foods, and especially not so easy to know what’s what when you find it.
Near the entrance of Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace, once the home of the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, we found the
A visit to fabled Topkapi, imperial and administrative center of the Ottoman Empire for 400 years
On our first day in Istanbul, after arriving at 4:30 on a Sunday morning and heading straight to a nap
On our first day in Istanbul, after arriving at 4:30 on a Sunday morning and heading straight to a nap
On our first day in Istanbul, after arriving at 4:30 on a Sunday morning and heading straight to a nap
Two Swedish airports have found a new way to relieve departing travelers of their unneeded local currency. A bank of videogames, set up at Stockholm’s Arlanda and Goteborg’s Landvetter airports have been set up to accept any currency at all to play…
Last summer in Paris, we visited an exhibit at the Institute du Monde Arabe, featuring cars and artifacts of the Orient Express and its mystique. A significant part of the exhibit, given the venue, focused on the exotic spell it had for Europeans.
