Between Two Continents: Istanbul

Simit sellers work the ferry deck the entire crossing, and I've started timing my breakfast to the boat schedule.

The Blue Mosque courtyard is quietest right after the dawn call to prayer, before the tour groups arrive with their headsets and flags.

We ended the day at a rooftop tea house in Balat, watching container ships line up to enter the Bosphorus as the call to prayer echoed from a dozen minarets at once.