Posts with tag ”turkey”

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Movie locations around the world part 3

This is part 3 of my quest for finding movie locations around the world. Contents: Game of Thrones, Da Vinci Code, Midnight in Paris, Contact, Control, Into the Wild, The Terminator, From Russia with Love, Back to the Future 3, Argo, Taken 2, Young Guns 2.

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Review: Istanbul: Memories and the City

Review: Istanbul: Memories and the City

Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize in 2006. He has lived in Istanbul for almost his entire life and this book is the tale of him growing up there, as well as an attempt to describe the mentality of the citizens in the ever-changing city.

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Roaming the cobblestones of Istanbul

Roaming the cobblestones of Istanbul

I am currently sitting in a room in Sultanahmet, the old part of Istanbul. The Bosporus strait is within sight and the air is filled with the competing sounds of hungry seagulls and shouting minarets.

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