Advantages: Humorous combination of chick lit and historical fiction. Disadvantages: You may not like both genres.
While I was aware that Mavis Cheek is a popular English chick lit author, I hadn?t thought her interesting enough for me to try her work, until now.
I picked up this book in my local library after seeing a portrait of Anne of Cleves looking demurely at me from the spine. Being interested in historical fiction, I thought I might enjoy this. Fortunately I also like well-written humorous chick lit, as this is the category most of the book belongs to. I will explain.
An intelligent wife, who considers herself plain looking, and has played second fiddle to her snobbish husband, suddenly finds herself a widow after an accident.
The young adult daughter, a Daddy?s girl, cringes to think of her mother doing anything out of the character that they have become used to. As I have a young adult daughter myself, the funny side of this ...
Advantages: Fascinating, historic, romantic, magical, nowhere else like it Disadvantages: Must go at the right time, can be very busy
One of the world's biggest cities, Istanbul is almost too diverse and too historic to sum up in one review. One could spend weeks in this fascinating metropolis and still barely scratch the surface. The city is at once bewildering, enchanting and exciting and exploring it can sometimes feel like hard work but your efforts will be rewarded many times over. I can only give a very general overview of Istanbul here, it's unrealistic to think that one could give any more in a couple of thousand words but at the end I'll give some suggestions for reading and viewing material that I think will complement and extend what I want to say about the city.
Istanbul has a population of around 12 million - more or less; the authorities don't really know how many people actually live there because hundreds more people arrive from rural areas every ...
Advantages: So many wonderful sights, clean and easy to get around, reasonable prices Disadvantages: Smoking in some places put us off our meals
Istanbul sightseeing.
This is a review of my experience and really there is so much to see and do you need to read a few of the great reviews on this site, as I did before we went in order to make your own mind up as to what you want to experience for yourself. There is no way I could go into depth about every sight, I have tried to create a desire to go and a taste of what is there.
WHEN WE WERE IN ISTANBUL:
We spent five days in Istanbul just before Easter 2009 and we stayed at the Orient Express Hotel in the Sirkeci area of old Istanbul. (Another separate review)
Istanbul is the only city built on two continents and split by the sea. The Bosporus is the section of water which unites the two continents and joins the Sea of Marmara to the Black sea.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS:
The first thing that struck me as we drove from the Airport to ...
