Istanbul truly is one of the world's greatest cities. Sat on the bridge between Europe and Asia, even on a drizzly, windy December day it's still an utterly fantastic city to explore. I set out after a free breakfast of turkish cheese on bread with a cherry tomato and splash of olives, negotiating a 'path' by the side of a motorway... I was making my way around the Sultanhamet peninsula, the epicentre of Ottoman and Byzantine power when both those great empires...

We were late out of Heathrow because a cargo company worker decided to carelessly dump sump boxes behind our plane meaning we were 45minutes late for take off... Once on the British Airways flight it was... mind-numbingly dull. The 3 hour flight is long enough so you get bored but short enough for BA to use a crampt plane with no TVs etc. We landed in Istanbul, shrouded in fog under a deluge. Migration was a tad hectic, now probably one of very few people on Ea...