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Turkish Delight: A Former Prison is Now a Four Seasons Hotel

Where: Tevkifhane Sokak No. 1, Sultanahmet-Eminönü, Istanbul, Turkey, 34110

Last week Shira Levine spent a few days getting her Turkish Delight on in Istanbul, Turkiye ("Turkey is a bird; Turkiye is the country") and checking out the transcontinental Eurasian city's hotel scene. Any questions about where to stay in Turkiye? Send 'em to us and we'll have Shira answer them for you.

By director Oliver Stone's "Midnight Express" film portrayal, if there is one notable Turkish site to skip over it's the inside of a Turkish prison. But if it's the inside of a Neoclassical jail conversion and that jail conversion happens to now be a Four Seasons, we learned that staying a few night doesn't compromise sanity, just bank accounts.

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Amazing Race 7 Hotel Report: What Is A Gnome?

Where: Tevkifhane Sokak No. 1, Istanbul, Turkey, 34110

Does anyone else find watching Meredith and Gretchen like watching a typical Hollywood horror movie?

You know they are going to get the axe, it is just a matter of when, but you shout at the TV trying to keep them alive.

Well the shouting worked this week as Meredith & Gretchen kicked ass, old people style.

Unfortunately, Boston Rob, who recently beat out Todd English as Boston's #3 "Most Loathsome Bostonian," (Yes, as soon as the folks in New York do something, the folks in Boston feel the need to do the exact same thing.) was not eliminated from the race.  However, at least the man that needed a definition for the word 'gnome' didn't get his hands on the $20,000 cash prize offered by Travleocity.

The Amazing Race Hotel Report Continues Post Break

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