The Nice Istanbul City Break Guide - City Break Guides, #1

Are you a slow reader yet anxious to visit Istanbul? Here's a guide that is quick and should help you gobble up Istanbul's glamour faster than a street vendor's gozleme. This is by no means a comprehensive guide to the city; there are plenty of those and it would be quite complicated to write one that offers something that there's not already there. We're simply not up for the task, at least not this time.
This guide is for those of you looking to spend only a few days in the city and want to get a good idea of the things you may have time to visit and why you should visit them. Picture this: You're about to embark on a whirlwind love affair with Istanbul, but like any good fling, you kinda want to reach a certain point as soon as possible. If your heart is full of wanderlust but have a schedule tighter than the lid on a jar of Turkish pickles, you probably simply can't spend hours or days reading about Istanbul.
That's where we strut in, offering you a mirthful guide to the must-sees and must-dos that should resonate with history nerds & night owls. In other words, our guide can come in handy if you are in a hurry or simply don't want to spend hours reading about specific topics (e.g., restaurants, hotels) looking at offline maps. We like to believe that our guide, like the best Turkish delight, is sweet, slightly nutty, and leaves you craving more.
So, how about you join us on a romp through Istanbul's cobbled streets, where history collides with the modern, where Byzantine meets the Ottoman, where Europe meets the Middle East, etc. Let's see if this guide can be a bit like Istanbul itself: a little chaotic, brimming with beauty, and simply cool.