Istanbul
I'm planning on going to Istanbul sometime this year, maybe in a couple of weeks, maybe in the autumn. I was there in 1969 (ok-so I'm old) and stayed at the Gulhane Cineb(?) Hotel. God knows why they chose to call it a hotel, it was just accommodation, nine steel bunks to a room and bare concrete floors, with people from all over Europe, Asia and Africa and the US (better leave that as just 'all over', perhaps) drifting through.
Can anybody tell me if it's still there? It was in the Sultan Ahmet district. You could see a mosque on the skyline, Santa Sofiya or the Blue Mosque, maybe, and on the other side (not close) was the Circeci(?) Station, and beyond that, the waterfront.
I've just seen it mentioned on Fred Reid's site, www.fredoneverything.net in his article on Istanbul, he was there in 1969 too, if you haven't seen his site, take a look, well worth a visit.
John
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