How do you write about a place you have not been? Ask a friend! Been There, Done That kindly supplied photos from a trip to Istanbul a while back. Previous guest post was Peru. Welcome BTDT. [In The Footsteps of the Inca]
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Technical Notes
Images as sent by photographer. Out of an abundance of caution, I cropped or blurred identifiable faces. Also added joint watermark.
Current online class, UC Graham: From Istanbul to Cairo: The City in the Historical Novels of the Middle East.
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
That’s Hagia Sophia, one of the architectural masterpieces I have wanted to visit. A student spent a year in Istanbul and because she knew how desperately I wanted to visit that place, she had her picture taken with a blown-up photo of my face in front her her own so I I could say I was there.
That was so sweet.