Istanbul. Where I have always wanted to go.

View Over the Bosporus.


Isn't it spectacular. All the colors, all the history, the two continents, the great cultural divide. What a vivid place. It has stood out for over two thousand years as one of the great cultural centers in the world. Even today with Turkey's battles between Secularist and Islamist conceptions of the political sphere Istanbul continues to bridge the east and the west.