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What do you get when you combine one of the world’s largest aquariums with one of the world’s most amazing cities? Fishtanbul!

Did you ever have someone tell you something and then later you look back and realize they saw the truth much clearer than you yourself did?

Tom is an old school travel writer, guide book author – the kind that went to the destination, walked all the streets, drew the map if there wasn’t one, learned the language, and checked all the prices – and what is incredibly cool, is that he is also a pioneer of the new school of travel writing and online guides.

I have a friend that went to Petra recently and she told me that she met no less than fifteen people who described their profession as travel bloggers, five travel writers, and a few travel photographers.

My wife seems surprised when I try to include her in making plans for our lives and tends to just tell me to make the decision and she will support it.

Istanbul is the only city in the world that sits in both Asia and Europe.

Istanbul is an emotional state more than a place.

Midnight Express, big Turkish mustaches, sodomy, the movie airplane and the mention of Turkish bath houses, more sodomy, drugs, Midnight Express again, Turkish delight, Narnia

Living in a hotel in Istanbul and publishing fairy tales…the writer’s life for me.