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So here I am in Kayseri on a lovely autumn day and I'm running round town like a blue-arsed fly trying to find out where the bus to Ağırnas leaves from. You'd think this would be easy, wouldn't you? After all it's not that long since a new museum on the...
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I'm in Kayseri looking for a new quilt of the fast-vanishing old traditional type when I see a bus heading for Talas and decide to grab it. In 19th-century accounts of Kayseri it is usually Talas over which the writers wax most lyrical and if the jam-packed conditions on the bus...
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It's my last day in Istanbul so I've decided to do something I ought to have done years ago, namely walk along the Land Walls that make such an impressive introduction to the city as you whisk in from the airport. Somehow there's always been something standing in the way of...
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In the cool of early evening I thought I'd take a turn around the back streets of Eminönü. It always surprises me how busy this area is, yet how little the crowds of passers-by actually seem to notice what they're passing by. For most it just seems to be a...
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It being another lovely sunny day, I thought I'd take the ferry up the Golden Horn to Hasköy and check to see whether the Aynalıkavak Kasrı pavilion really had reopened to the public as I'd heard. It's always lovely to take that ferry ride although I was a disappointed to find...
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According to my writing partner Saffet Emre Tonguç there's a museum in Genoa that celebrates that city's role in the history of İstanbul and I was thinking about that today as I was poking about in the back streets beneath the Galata Tower, the most prominent reminder that there was once...
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Two years ago while doing the research for Istanbul The Ultimate Guide one of the parts of the city that most set my pulse racing was, rather unexpectedly, Karaköy. Karaköy is one of those places you tend not to notice, a transit point where you're always hopping in and out of...
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It's been a while since I was in İstanbul so it was fun to take a turn along Ordu Caddesi (Army Street) and see what was cooking. Actually, I kicked off in Beyazıt with a quick look to see if there was any chance that the Calilgraphy Museum in the Beyazıt...
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So you want to get from Cappadocia to İstanbul? The quickest and easiest way is to fly but of course that requires a bit of advance planning. What's more you might be unlucky and want to travel at a particularly popular time in which case the cheap tickets people always tell...
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What bliss to wake up in boutique luxury rather than home-stay squalor! I wander downstairs and find the breakfast room indoors which is a great disappointment. You can carry your plate upstairs to the terrace and feast your eyes on the great flat Plain of Mesopotamia unfolding into the distance...
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