Sailing To Byzantium (via Turkish Airlines)

[Flare400]

Thanks for the tour!

It's amazing how these places are so saturated with historical landmarks that there's no upkeep on some of them and anyone can come and explore. Makes me want to go there too!

[TheEditorialist]

@Flare400

Turkey is the most saturated of them all.

I went to Sinope and saw a the ruins of a church built in the 660's.

The walls were 8 feet thick, classic Late Roman through and through. It occurred to me that this may be the only remaining structure on Earth built in that century.

An imposing and monumental edifice. On the grandiosity scale it rates a perfect 10.

And it was so completely abandoned. I had it all to myself.

If you want the grandeur of Rome, don't go to Rome go to Turkey.

[kellylynn9999]

So gorgeous....I had no idea! Thank you for sharing!

[TheEditorialist]

@kellylynn9999

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The pleasure was all mine.

Thanks for watching and commenting, kelly.

[aykutkutkutkut]

nice trip. thanks for sharing.

[x0TheJackal0x]

that was awesome. i wanna live in turkey for awhile at some point. if you dont mind my asking, what do you do that allows you to travel so much? (international diamond thief right?)

[TheEditorialist]

@x0TheJackal0x

"if you dont mind my asking, what do you do that allows you to travel so much? (international diamond thief right?)"

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No, I'm a speculator in much less tangible things than diamonds.

Though if I'm having a really good week, I do feel like a bit of a thief.