File this under: Jobs I’d Love! I spotted this guy when we were in Istanbul, Turkey, in the Beyoglu area of the city – a younger, more modern area full of shops, restaurants, and kiosks packed with chocolate! The chocolate is sold in nondescript aluminum foil, and perhaps that might fool you into thinking it’s [...]

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More posts about Istanbul on Ms. Adventures in Italy The Imperial Harem (Harem-i Hümayûn) is one of the most visited sights inside the Topkapi palace just mere meters from the Blue Mosque. I have to admit I’ve read a few historicals that were set in harems so I was curious to finally see one. The [...]

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If you knew how much material and photos for posts I have yet to share – some going back as far as two years, you’d probably get very angry with me. But back to Istanbul! Note, if you’re reading this in a feed reader, there’s a video at the bottom of the post you may [...]

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Read my other Turkey posts exploring Turkish Coffee and  Turkish Delight, or Lokum / Loukoum, in Spice / Egyptian Bazaar The Spice Bazaar, Mısır Çarşısı in Turkish is also called the Egyptian Bazaar because of all the import duties paid by the Egyptians. Its presence goes back as far as 1660 when it was part [...]

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I have a lot of pictures from my trip to Istanbul. It’s organizing them into posts that’s the hard part. Thanks to Twitter, I sent out a Tweet if 13 photos are too many in one post, and luckily some of my followers responded immediately: coconutlime @rosso 2 parts sound good, i don’t think people [...]

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