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N ANCIENT LAND, Turkey is the fabled crossroads between Europe and Asia, a repository of endless Roman and Greek ruins, and a decidedly mixed character. The bulk of the country lies in Asia - intimately connected with and bordering on the middle east - and with a tiny foothold in Europe, of which she desperately wants to belong.
And it's a large land. Turkey is one of the few countries in the world that is a net exporter of food, for one interesting fact. That vastness accounts for differing character as you progress from west to east.

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As we watch the city go to dusk from the isolation of our arriving cruise ship, we get the overwhelming sensation we are in someplace truly different. The city is congested, with mixed architecture - prominent among all are the great mosques, set like great stones in an otherwise amorphous sea of lesser buildings and apartments.

As twilight slips in, we hear the wail of the muzzein drift across the water, reinforcing that sense of strange and different culture.

We wonder what is in store for us...