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How To: Shopping in Paris Markets

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Paris Book Seller by the Seine
Paris Book Seller by the Seine

Destination: Paris

Book: Markets of Paris (2nd Edition) (NEW May 2012) by Dixon Long and Marjorie R. Williams

Anybody who follows me on Facebook, knows I am nuts about going to a Farmer’s Market in Tucson every Sunday morning. I have even set myself a challenge to try a new-to-me produce item each week. (To follow my shopping/cooking escapades, follow me on Facebook.) But compared to the authors of this book about Paris markets, I’m not adventurous at all! This is one of those books that I wish I had discovered before we went to France. As I read, I discover that I was practically next to some of these fascinating markets, and didn’t even know it at the time. Continue reading How To: Shopping in Paris Markets →

Beneath the Surface of Istanbul

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A Guidebook Digression

Istanbul Blue Mosque
Blue Mosque, Istanbul . Photo used courtesy of Bob Ramsak, Piran Cafe

Destination: Istanbul, Turkey

Book: Istanbul: A Cultural History (NEW January 2012) by Peter Clark

With this cultural history of Istanbul, the Interlink Books publishing company racks up twenty such guides to cities around the world, from Calcutta to San Francisco.  To see the entire list of Cultural Histories, or to purchase this book or the others in the series, go to the Interlink site. The next book in the series is on Afghanistan rather than a single city. (A few more are listed as Cultural and Literary Companions.) Continue reading Beneath the Surface of Istanbul →

New Old Book Strolls Through Istanbul

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Book Cover

Destination: Istanbul

Book: Strolling Through Istanbul, The Classic Guide to the City by Hilary Sumner-Boyd & John Freely (Originally published 1972;NEW edition, 2010)

I try to imagine strolling the streets of Istanbul, but I am hampered by the perennial action movie shots–camera zooming overhead as swarthy men race through narrow passage ways, overturning carts of chickens who run squawking in all directions and….CUT! Continue reading New Old Book Strolls Through Istanbul →