Urban Travel, Sustainability & Accessibility

A DAILY OCCURRENCE IN ISTANBUL Istanbul is one of my favorite cities on earth. I've spent well more than a month total in my vi...

Istanbul, Turkey Orhan Pamuk's Nobel-winning literature so often finds its characters on the backstreets of Istanbul. Unfortu...

ANADOLU KAVAĞI, ISTANBUL, TURKEY Orhan Pamuk, the great Istanbul-immersed Nobel Prize-winning author, often writes about the loss...

FABULOUS FRESCOES IN A CHURCH WITH ROOTS BACK TO THE FOURTH CENTURY Chora's amazing frescoes were done in the 15th century, during a...

FROM TOPKAPI Views of where the Bosphorus meets the Sea of Marmara. Glimpses of the ancient sea walls. The vistas are almost as beau...

COLORFUL WOODEN HOUSES BY CHORA CHURCH Istanbul is still a magical place. But it is losing many of its old wooden houses to fires, neg...

Picture post car view of the Bosphorus. The tower in the background is the Galata Tower. The neighborhoods in the foreground include K...

TURKISH COFFEE DONE THE RIGHT WAY Wood fired cooker. Craftsman at the helm. Chilly early fall night. Walking the backstreets of ...

BLACK CATS ARE BEAUTIFUL And they deserve our love and special attention on Halloween. Cartoons and scary stories are fine. But don...

ISTANBUL'S STRONG BACKED PORTERS Even in modern times, you cannot walk down a street in Istanbul without seeing a man -- sometimes a...

FIRST DAY IN ISTANBUL After nearly 12-hour flight. 7 p.m. felt like 2 a.m. with the time change. My gracious host Deniz took me fro...

SO I'M IN ISTANBUL, TRYING TO GET A BREATHER FROM THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION... And I'm in Eyup, looking across the magnifi...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY Footsteps from Hotel Niles. Touristy. Amazing. Historic. Must see. Bought my wife's birthday jewelry fro...

THE CULTURE, PEOPLE AND UNMATCHED HOSPITALITY OF TURKEY AWAIT Yes, the nation is under a state of emergency. Yes, you may go through a...

BOTH ARE UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES As old as Istanbul itself, these ancient neighborhoods that huge the Golden Horn are funky, histori...

A MESSAGE OF LOVE FROM ISTANBUL It's a Moslem woman. Donald Trump and other right wing reactionary crazies have told me all I need ...

EXPERT ADVICE, WRITTEN BEAUTIFULLY ON AN ENCHANTING WEBSITE My travel writing friend and colleague Tom Brosnahan has created the most d...