One of the images that I often see on the tourism brochures for Istanbul and Turkey is this image of the town of Ortaköy at the base of the Bosphorus Bridge on [...]

I stumbled across this video of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. This beautiful building that was built by the Eastern Roman empire had a great influence later on the style of the Imperial [...]

I had the opportunity to be interviewed by the Travel in 10 podcast and again talked about Istanbul. You might have gotten the impression that the city of Istanbul has left an [...]

While Craig and Linda from the Indie Travel Podcast were on vacation I hosted an episode of there show. Check out the episode “Chris takes us to Istanbul“

Visit Istanbul, Turkey with the Amateur Traveler: The Grand Bazaar, a cruise on the Bosporus and a final glass of tea at the cafe Pierre Lodi to end our visit to Istanbul. [...]

Visit Istanbul, Turkey with the Amateur Traveler: The Topkapı Palace is the old Ottoman imperial palace in Istanbul. It was built in 1459 by Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror and was the seat [...]

Visit Istanbul, Turkey with the Amateur Traveler: Hagia Sophia is a former basilica, later a mosque, now a museum. It dominated the Constantinople/Istanbul skyline for centuries and was the largest cathedral in [...]

Visit Istanbul, Turkey with the Amateur Traveler: The ancient walls of Constantinople built by Theodosius II in 413 A.D. Also see the fortress of seven towers at the Southern end of the [...]

Visit Istanbul Turkey with the Amateur Traveler: The european style Dolmabahçe Palace and the lovely town of Ortaköy at the base of the Bosphorus bridge click here to download

When I was in Istanbul recently I stayed in two different hotels. The first one was a European style business hotel near Taksim. The second one was a small hotel, Hotel Historia, [...]