“With a Hazelnut” East of Tophane the Bosphorus coast road from the Galataport whips through Fındıklı, a fairly nondescript part of town mainly…
Northwest of Taksim Square, in the busy corner formed by Cumhuiyet Caddesi and Tarlabaşı Bulvarı, Talimhane was, not so very long ago, a…
“Waterwheel Stream” Flea market: Sunday Dolapdere is the area immediately below Tarlabaşı but whereas Tarlabaşı is full of fine if broken-down houses Dolapdere…
“Galata Palace” Galatasaray is the name of one of İstanbul’s three ferociously popular football teams but long before that it was the name…
“Top of the Hill İstiklal Caddesi looking uncomfortably crowded? Then duck down a side street into Meşrutiyet Caddesi (Constititional Monarchy Street) that runs…
“The Mescid under the Grapevine” Just off İstiklal Caddesi, Asmalimescit is the small, confined area near the Tünel exit of the Tünel-Karaköy funicular.…
Şişhane is the small district to the west of İstiklal Caddesi at the southern end of Refik Saydam Caddesi, the extension of Tarlabaşı…
“Tunnel” Technically it may be the name given to the 573-metre-long funicular that runs uphill to İstiklal Caddesi from Karaköy but Tünel is also the…
At Alabanda, near Çine, I bump into a student from Aydın University. He’s clad in what seems to be the international national-park staff…
In 2024 Turkey had twenty-six towns that had signed up with the Cittaslow movement whose symbol is a snail. They are: Ahlat Akyaka…