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The frescoes in Sumela Monastery are beautiful and it is a wonder how, all those years ago, monks found paint that lasted centuries of snow, wind and rain.

Two plates went straight to the floor at my feet. A saucer followed and then a few dozen spoons. I could have killed myself to save the embarrassment. What was it about a "musafir, Hindustani" that invited such calculated violence?

Sooner or later, everyone visits Turkey and everyone who visits Turkey then speaks of the following - trams, the bazaars, the fish sandwich by the Bosphorous and the Bosphorous Cruise.