istanbul'dayım (return to the cosmopolis)

I took this photograph late last summer, walking down by the docks at Eminönü and gazing across the Haliç, or Golden Horn. The hill across the water is a district known as Galata or Pera, once the site of European powers' trading settlements in Constantinople. The Genoese built a massive, cylindrical stone tower atop it in 1348, and the structure--known as the Galata Külesi, or Galata Tower--still remains. And now I live in the fourth story of a building about 15 meters from the base of its walls. If the resolution on this photo were better, I might be able to pick out our rooftop.

I'm back....