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 Turkey with the Amateur Traveler: The ancient ruins of Ephesus (site of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world), the hot springs of Pamukkale, the ruins of Hieropolis and ...

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

Visit Eastern Turkey with the Amateur Traveler: The marketplace and mosque of Urfa (where the Turks say that Abraham was born) and the museum and marketplace of Gaziantep 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, ...

Visit Istanbul with the Amateur Traveler: The church St Saviour in Chora has some of the best frescoes and mosaics from the Byzantine period click here to download (m4v)

The Amateur Traveler goes to Istanbul: Taksim, Call to Prayer, Istiklâl Caddesi, Çiçek Pasajı (Flower Passage), Tünel, Cezayir Sokak (French Street), Galata Tower, Hagia Sofia, Sultan Ahmet Mosque (Blue Mosque), Topkapı Palace, ...

The Amateur Traveler goes to Turkey: Gaziantep, Urfa, Izmir, Ephesus, Pamukkale, and Hieropolis. This is the first of two episodes on Turkey and deals with the visit to Eastern Turkey and the ...

The Amateur Traveler interviews Ann about her trip to Turkey: the Turkish Riviera, Roman and Greek Ruins, Istanbul, Ankara, Cappadocia, Pamucale, Turkish Food and the Bosphorus Express. Ann talks about the fairy ...