THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ISTANBUL HAMAM

. As we sat and poured h2o about ourselves, our nervous chatter gave way to a lazy, dreamlike silence. Our reverie in the steamy, cloudy, heat air was out of the blue interrupted when a youthful Lady approached us and stated something to me in Turkish. I stated pardon and he or she repeated herself.The Suleymaniye Hamam, designed by the popular Ott