Simon Taylor

Learnt a little about Ankara. It had a population of 300,000 in 1920 when Atatürk’s success in the war of independence brought him to power and he declared it the capital, after which he never set foot in İstanbul again. So it owes its present status as well

Pazartesi, Monday: and the parties continued into the night last night. Waking this morning, sick. Stomach sick. still, tempted to try breakfast, through the other side of where we’d eaten the night before, a low door, corridor, ladies in the kitchen, our house host leading the way … and returning

… yes, from the city on the hill, where it began and where the founders of the Ottoman Empire are buried, to the old city … first, breakfast, the unsurpassed buffet at the Royal Termal Hotel, making up for absence of thermal baths. At the bus stop outside the hotel: the bus

contact me here for information, to book Minus Theatre for a world tour, festivals, workshops or simple and discreet offers of patronage

that was dinner, this was, for which we are prepared to forgive a multitude of sins, breakfast, kahvaltı (it remains, as I write this high above İzmir and the muezzin sings, the best), by bus and Bursa card we go to İznik, and, as it also was known, Nicaea, described

Goodbye Han Point Hotel, and to the streets of Fatih which every morning each of the four times we have set forth have like the stairs at Hogwarts and every night of each of our four days spent in Istanbul changed. Our street was always one more over, either left