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Blue Mosque at Dusk
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S 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...

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One look at a map will tell you almost everything you need to know about Istanbul.

It is the crossroads between Asia and Europe, has been the center of two major empires, and is, today, a major outpost of Islam, balanced with a secularist government intent on joining the rest of Europe.

We arrive in a musty old hotel on the south side of the old town peninsula, after a hair-raising taxi ride.

First order of business is the Grand Bazaar - a place like no other. Thousands of shops and stalls and aggressive hawkers inviting you to "come and see".

We have lunch with a contact of Alan's and then return to the Grand Bazaar, finishing the evening along the shoreline.

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