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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

ISTANBUL, TURKEY: WHERE EAST MEETS WEST


BY: JANET STEINBERG

Who would have dreamed it?  Certainly, I could not have!
As a young girl, bored to death in a geography class that spoke of sultans, straits, and seven continents, I could never have dreamed where I would be six decades later. 
THERE I WAS...IN ISTANBUL

But there I was…sitting in a genuine Ottoman Sultan’s palace on the continent of Europe, overlooking a panoramic view of the majestic Bosphorus Strait, and gazing at the coastline of the continent of Asia, an almost veritable stone’s throw away.  Yes, moments after checking into the incredible Ciragan Palace Kempinski that is exactly what I was doing.