Oct 30, 2010 7:59 AM

Istanbul, City of the Future, by Pico Iyer

*This guy is just such a good writer. I've followed his work for years.

*It helped a lot, too. I'm always finding myself inside Pico Iyer situations that,
thanks to him, I read about fifteen years ago.

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/city-guides/istanbul-traveler/

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