vacation from transit? no way!
They say true love knows no bounds. During last week’s trip to see my wife in Istanbul, I had to test this theory.
The city has many things to see. Hundreds of historic mosques, the breathtaking Hagia Sophia cathedral/mosque/museum, which was built exactly 1,400 years before the Golden Gate Bridge, and Topkapi Palace that served as home for generations of Ottoman sultans and their concubines.
We saw those things, but then I had to see the world’s oldest subway, which opened in 1875.
At 1,180 feet, it may be the world’s shortest subway system, but I found out later that despite all the hype, it’s not as Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Under: Golden Gate Bridge, other, rail | 2 Comments »


