My favorite city on the planet. Wonderful people. Every car dealer in America should send their sales force to Istanbul to learn from the carpet men. Those guys know how to make the customer enjoy a hard sale pitch. I was buying wholesale in the Grand Bazaar and insisted on cutting through all the offers of apple tea, coffee and chit-chat. When we were done, the seller said..."Ok...we're finished. I will not show you one more thing. But you must have some apple tea with me. It is our custom and our culture." So we sat and BS for two more hours. Most of that time was spent looking at old pictures of him, his store at a USAF base which had closed and US servicemen. He was teary eyed recalling all the friends who had left.