Tourists ought to pay
OUR favourite goddess loves Istanbul. With a population approaching 16 million, making it Europe’s largest city, this Bombay on the Bosphorus dishes up great mosques and monuments, state-of-the-art museums, frantic shopping and an intoxicating cocktail of Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, Greek, Armenian and Jewish cultural ingredients. The experience made her think again about over-tourism, the fashionable travel topic, replacing the usual concerns about sunburn, dengue fever, poor exchange rates, lost luggage and food poisoning at all-inclusive resort buffets.
