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MEMORIES OF MARVELOUS PORTS

Author: By Richard P. Carpenter, Globe Staff
Date: SUNDAY, July 26, 1998
Page: M6
Section: Travel

Istanbul -- It's the only city that straddles two continents -- Europe and Asia -- and it's always abuzz with activity. It has a universal language, too: that of the car horn. . . . The Grand Bazaar is a seemingly endless enclave, with 4,000 shops and stalls crammed with rugs, jewelry, leather goods, and nearly everything else. But you don't have to go there to find salespeople. Wherever there's a shop or a tourist, there's a cheerfully aggressive salesman lurching out of nowhere and willing to bargain. ``They're on you like a duck on a June bug,'' says an exasperated tourist from Texas. But she's smiling. . . . Just $4 of our money equals a million Turkish lira, so we're all millionaires here. . . . The Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia, with their domes and minarets and tumbling roofs, are merely magnificent, conjuring up the wonder and mystery of this ancient crossroads city. The same goes for Topkapi Palace, which has much more than its most famous item: that jewel-encrusted sword. . . . Schoolchildren greet us wherever we go by saying in English, ``Hello! What's your name?'' And aren't they good-looking kids!


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