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Sultanahmet late summer

  Tuesday, early evening, the last full week of August, in the month of Ramazan. Our window on the fourth floor faces east, overlooking themouth of the Bosphorus. I’ve taken to working here each late afternoonuntil the sun sets. Sounds from outside float in over a strong,cooling breeze; after so many weeks of excessive […]

Orienting expressed

In 1890, the newly opened Sirkeci Station was the last stop on the Orient Express, that fabled train route that led from staid Vienna to exotic Istanbul. Then and now, it is as far east as one may travel by rail, arriving in the Old City along the shore of the Bosphorus, skimming the […]