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Ancient walls and towers, for this is one of the world's most ancient cities, which now has motorways in its midst. Pathé Pictorial's magic carpet has never taken you to a place where a magic carpet was more appropriate. And whether it's a jet aircraft flying high over Istanbul, giving you a cloudy, lofty view of the mystery city of mos ques, or a helicopter carpet at Minaret height, you drink the magic in. Santa Sophia Mosque, once a Christian church and now a museum, always makes you feel, even when your feet are on the ground, that you yourself are up in the air. Golden Horn and the Galata Bridge, where at ferryboat level , they say, you'll meet everyone in the world who deserves to be called a human being, which seems unfair because here it's a man's world. Women are mostly veiled or hidden away. This is the gateway to Asia. This is Europe's last tent ative outpost. It shows its ambivalence mainly by male predominance. But Istanbul largely consists of exciting waterways. The Galata Bridge is Istanbul. People and mystery and manual labor. Here on the porter's backs, you can analyze life halfway between east and west. You'll learn the secret of this strange place as readily from the pelican as you will from its mysterious but most hospitable inhabitants. Halfway house life, Europe and Asia. And a really lovely thing, sweet, fresh fish. Fish from the Bosphorus. And the custom here is to grill it on charcoal. It's a custom that should spread because it's delicious. It's a good food and a good food and a good food and a good food and a good food and a good food. It's a good food and a good food and a good food and a good food and a good food and a good food. and see how different and delightful it tastes. If you're anybody here, you have your shoes shine. They're dusty in 10 minutes time, but you do it because you 're floating on air most of the time, in a city that's a million different places, itself split between two continents with only ferry boats threading it across that narrow, exciting waterway that divides us from Asia and dramatically links Russia and the Black Sea with the Mediterranean, and the world at large. This waterway, among other things, is a city street with local transport. What a mix-up of an ancient and a modern city it is. What a smoky beacon at the crossroads of east and west and north and south. What a fascinating series of contradictions and enigmas. Mosques like this crumbled here in earthquakes, and wooden houses