There were three things we wanted to see in Istanbul besides the Bosphorus: the Blue Mosque, Hagia Sofia, and Topkapi Palace. Evidently none of my photos of the Blue Mosque came out; the inside is covered with blue and white tiles--millions of them.

I loved the variety of stone inside the Hagia Sofia, even when I figured out that above 15 feet the stone was fake; it was painted to look like stone.

Topkapi Palace is enormous, surrounded by many parks and near the archeology museum, which has many wonderful Lycean sarchophagi taken from their original sites. None of my photos survived, including some wonderful huge Hittite lions outside the museum.