Geography

Istanbul is divided into three parts: the old city (where most of the historical buildings are), the Northern part (where most of the hotels are, also the commercial and administrative center), and the Asian part (largely for local residents, and also where the major port is).

The traffic here is always horrific; most of vehicles must be made of soft plastic so that they could squeeze through those small village roads and between each other. When we navigated around the city, our local guide loved to point to the sea around and said, "This is the Golden Horn." "This goes to the Black Sea." And there are the Bosphorus, the Aegean Sea, the Meditarranean Sea. Quite an endless list of geographic term.

"How could we teach Euterpe to learn all these places in the future?" Vivian asked.

I gave a light-hearted answer, "Teach her playing Diplomacy."

PS. The only person whom I know playing this famous board game during childhood was Henry Kissinger - and, in addition to geography, an important thing that you could learn is stabbing the others' back !