Istanbul's fantastic. I haven't really been here that long, only a couple of days now, but already I think it's fantastic.

There are slow-rising hills everywhere you look, brimming with buildings new and old. Grand mosques pepper the cityscape, and are more plentiful than anything that impressive has a right to be . These things are huge. Huge grey stone buildings with majestic domes. And as a seat of two of the biggest empires the world has ever known, this city has the kind of history that other cities dream about == I'm only starting to scratch the surface.