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Pages Café, Istanbul
Just across the grand Chora Museum in Istanbul’s 8500 year old Fatih district, there is a narrow dead-end. The buildings on this street are old and monochrome, but the second to last one is freshly painted green. It carr...
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Café MOC, Istanbul
MOC (Ministry of Coffee), is a spacious coffee shop in Istanbul’s Nişantaşı, a posh residential area and one of the best shopping districts offering an excellent choice of international and local designer labels . Although ther...
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Minoa Café & Bookstore, Istanbul
Literature lovers and bookworms in Istanbul, are you looking for a spot for working, reading, studying, having breakfast, lunch or a decent cup of coffee? Minoa, an independent bookstore & café in Akaretler, is the place to...
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MAC Café at Kanyon Shopping Centre, Istanbul
MAC Café is at the entrance level of MARS Sports Club. As it is tucked in a corner at the far end of Kanyon, one of the largest shopping centres in Istanbul, you might need directions to locate it but once you find the heavy do...
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Café Lumiere, Istanbul
Almost hidden on a narrow, cobbled street in Cihangir, Café Lumiere looks like a small coffee shop from outside. A pleasant surprise awaits you though, once you pass through the unassuming narrow door and enter the café through...
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Café Atölye Kafası ‘Hangar’, Istanbul
Once a melting pot of diverse cultures of Jewish, Greek, Armenian, Christian and Muslim peoples of the Ottoman empire, Balat and Fener neigbourhoods of Istanbul have largely lost their multi-cultural character during the 20th c...
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Antilop Café & Brasserie, Zekeriyaköy, Istanbul
Zekeriyaköy (köy means village in Turkish) is an effluent suburb on the European side of Istanbul. It is one of the few areas, which can still offer a relatively quiet village life despite its close location to the city’s main ...
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Cafe Wintergarten in Literaturhaus, Berlin
Café Wintergarten’s charming atmosphere comes from the interesting interior décor, which successfully combines the historic ambience of the century old villa with modern facilities. The beautiful Wilhelminian style villa was bu...
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Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel – 2009 Posted by guillermo maynez on 11/6/2012, 13:39:29 When I was a kid (13-14) I had to spend a couple of weeks at the house of some elderly and spinster aunts in the town of Irapuato, i...
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The Witches of Eastwick-John Updike
The Witches of Eastwick – John Updike – 1984 Posted by Joffre on 29/12/2014, 11:44:35 I finished up TWoE. It was one of the more enjoyable things I’ve read lately. Their games of tennis were amusing. There wer...
