Istanbul – Spice Bazaar – 1

This extract is from ‘Travel Tales from Exotic Places like Salford’

I went to the Spice Bazaar after visiting the Suleymaniye Mosque – I think I was a bit ‘mosqued out’ as it were – and it was a wonderful visit – if you stop for a second to take a
picture you can get pounced on and if you do want to buy anything you really need to know how much it would cost elsewhere. I’d taken a picture of some lamps and then the stallholder of the place where I was standing walked up to me.

“That will be twenty Lira.”

“Really – why is that?” I replied.

“You were standing on my property when you took that picture.”

“That’s a lot of money; I don’t have much money,” I laughed.