Istanbul

This is a little cafe at a ferry stop on the Asian side of Istanbul. This is how I think of the city: relaxed, urbane, not so full of itself that it recoils at a little scruffiness. As unreconstructed country people come into the city it is changing, but I hope there will always be unpretentious places where an woman with no headscarf and no chaperone can meet a friend for a drink with no one taking any particular notice.