A mosque is a mosque is a mosque, right? Wrong! You could perhaps be forgiven for thinking in this way while travelling around…
It’s an oft-commented fact that once a place has been sanctified by the erection of a religious building it tends to remain sacred…
Sinan in Thrace Population: 125,500 Old name: Arcadiopolis (Roman) Heading from İstanbul to Edirne you might…
Working for the Lonely Planet Turkey guidebook for ten years gave me a fantastic opportunity to travel all over the country. The trouble…
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…
The old Bithynian capiital Population: 342,074 Old name: Nicomedia, İzmit Generally speaking, it’s remoteness…