TUMBLING OLD OTTOMAN WOODEN HOUSE

ANADOLU KAVAĞI, ISTANBUL, TURKEY

Orhan Pamuk, the great Istanbul-immersed Nobel Prize-winning author, often writes about the loss of the old wooden Ottoman houses that used to line everything from the backstreets in poor areas to privileged locations along the Bosphorus waterfront.

Fires, neglect and widespread modern development has slain many of the quaint old structures.

Here, at the port of Andadolu Kavagi, almost to the edge of the Black Sea, an old wooden house is about to tumble into the Asian side shore of the Bosphorus.

It is flanked by a careworn, but still occupied house on one side and a modernized, well cared for waterfront home on the other.

ANADOLU KAVAĞI

 ISTANBUL, TURKEY

  

Anadolu Kavaği is a fishing village on the Asian side of the Bosphorus.

It's the last village before the Bosphorus opens up into the Black Sea.

It's less than an hour from central Istanbul.

The ruins of Yoros Castle loom high above the waterside restaurants.

Like Key West in the States Anadolu Kavaği lived off of wrecking in its early days.

Fishing also is big, but the present-day village makes most of its living off of day trippers on the last stop of the popular Bosphorus cruises.

So tourism in king.