Sirkeci Terminal, Istanbul: Last stop on the Orient Express
March 19, 2015
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.
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.
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.
Tea, we discovered in our week in Istanbul, is a necessity of nearly every meal and occasion, and one fraught with ritual. It must be
One of the classics for visitors to Istanbul—and for quite a few Istanbulis as well—is a cruise up the Bosphorus, the 19-mile strait that connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, and ultimately the Mediterranean.
The best-known active mosque in Istanbul, the Sultan Ahmet Mosque, popularly known as the Blue Mosque, stands next door to Hagia Sophia, which it replaced
Hagia Sophia is surely one of the most widely-recognized buildings on Earth, which is amazing considering that the world is so populated with other buildings modeled on it or even directly copied from it.
The February President’s Week break in New York schools is one of our regular travel times, and a welcome escape from bad weather…usually. We’ve given up on the idea of only traveling to warm places, but we did think that Istanbul, weather forecasts and past history, would be a relief from snowbound New York. Hah!
Built by 19th century Sultans who tired of living in famed Topkapi
At Anadolu Kavagi, where the Bosphorus meets the Black Sea, fish restaurants line the shore and the few other streets
Gulls cluster on a snowy rooftop along the Bosphorus
Last summer in Paris, we visited an exhibit at the Institute du Monde Arabe, featuring cars and artifacts of the
Last summer in Paris, we visited an exhibit at the Institute du Monde Arabe, featuring cars and artifacts of the
Tea, we discovered in our week in Istanbul, is a necessity of nearly every meal and occasion, and one fraught
One of the classics for visitors to Istanbul—and for quite a few Istanbulis as well—is a cruise up the Bosphorus, the 19-mile strait that connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, and ultimately the Mediterranean.
The best-known active mosque in Istanbul, the Sultan Ahmet Mosque, popularly known as the Blue Mosque, stands next door to
Hagia Sophia is surely one of the most widely-recognized buildings on Earth, which is amazing considering that the world is so populated with other buildings modeled on it or even directly copied from it.
The February President’s Week break in New York schools is one of our regular travel times, and a welcome escape from bad weather…usually. We’ve given up on the idea of only traveling to warm places, but we did think that Istanbul, weather forecasts and past history, would be a relief from snowbound New York. Hah!
At Anadolu Kavagi, where the Bosphorus meets the Black Sea, fish restaurants line the shore and the few other streets