Postcard from Istanbul
On my way to Europe, the cheapest flight was transiting thru Istanbul. Yes, I know it’s a 2-hour slight detour when your final destination is Nice, France. But Turkish Airlines had great price and a free 7-day layover. I have always dreamed of Istanbul, the first European city (or the first Asian city depending on how you look at it). It’s the cradle of the European civilization, it used to be a Christian city and now it’s a Muslim one. We could only stay four days, so we picked an AirBnb in Sultanahmet’s neighborhood and we walked everywhere. Our first stop was the basilica cistern (Turkish: Yerebatan Sarayı). It is the only underground cistern that lie beneath the city of Istanbul (that is formerly Constantinople), Turkey. We went...