Istanbul, Turkey
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
I've seen the Mosques, the Churches and the Palace but today I saw something the impressed me far more, The Basilica Cistern which lies below the old part of the city. During Byzantine times water was brought here from the north via a waterways which are engineering feats in themselves, there's an amazing aqueduct here in
Istanbul.Basically it's a big underground water container made out of brick and held up by massive columns. Two of the columns have bases carved with Medusa Heads. In fact the columns are all quite different as they were recycled from older buildings, who said being green was a new idea?Time to talk about Turkish food as found in
Istanbul. The bread is very good, nice a chewy just how I like it. The kebabs are good, both the sliced off the spit version and the cooked on the skewer sort although they don't seem to serve theirs with hot chilli sauce. But as with most food in most countries the food locally isn't as good as the version of the food that we get in the UK. I've never had a bad Turkish meal in London, whether it the Haz, the Taz or the cafe on Bethnal Green Road, but here some of it is good but much of it lacks flavour. Maybe it's just my palate that's uneducated and needs extreme blasts of flavour ;-)
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