Istanbul morning

Night train involves getting out with all the luggage at the border at 1am and waiting for passport control..my family were not enthusiastic..luckily the train arrived two hours late, at 7.45 am. Hotel Broken Column in the tourist area below Hagia Sophia, colourful tall houses with roof terraces, flowers, restaurants, yellow taxis, too much bright light, waters of the Marmara sparkling as we breakfasted on the terrace before setting out for a walking tour of old Istanbul (Constantinople, says Rico).. .Constantine and the hippodrome and Hagia Sophia, the centre of the Greek world and then the Roman empire and civilization itself..Read more