ISTANBUL: THE BAZAAR WORLD OF BELLY DANCING AND BOUZOUKIS BY THE BOSPHORUS

TIME TO GLOW: Twilight descends on magical IstanbulMy colleague was singing You And I by Lady Gaga while the house band — a fiddler, a fella banging the bejaysus out of a big bass drum and a whistling bouzouki player — accompanied her with what sounded suspiciously like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. At...

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TURK, REST AND PLAY

THE 'REAL' DEAL: Sign at entrance to EphesusHONESTY in advertising is important, which is why it was so refreshing to see the sign offering “genuine fake watches” outside a souvenir shop at the entrance to the ancient Greco-Roman city of Ephesus near Kusadasi, Turkey.The pint of local Efes lager I had...

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