Istanbul

One of the most interesting cities in the world is Istanbul. It’s beautiful, mysterious, alluring, poetic, colorful, historic, and during the big war (that’s World War II for those of you who don’t remember it) it was neutral. That made it a mixing bowl of intrigue and danger where people from the warring nations gathered to be—for a moment or two—civil and curious while their countrymen were killing each other.  Some of the action happens there.