Over the past three years, Brent and I have spent four months living in Istanbul, Turkey. We think it’s one of the most ...

Add in a lively events calendar – think Turkish Cuisine Week and modern art festival Contemporary Istanbul– and this is the best place to soak up Turkish cuisine, culture and mingling.

Where Europe meets Asia, Istanbul is a dizzying array of Byzantine treasures and soaring minarets, bisected by the Bosphorus strait. Though it’s long captivated visitors with its ancient charms ...