Great views always inspire creativity. Here is the view from my apartment in Beylerbeyi Istanbul where I host my dinners with friends. There is a little fishermen's port where one get daily caught fresh fish. Here is how Timeout Istanbul (unjustly in my view) describes my neighborhood as:
Just beyond the first Bosphorus Bridge stands Beylerbeyi Palace, last of the great ugly Ottoman palaces. Facing north-west, it gets little direct sunlight - the place was intended as a summer annexe to the main palace at Dolmabahçe. Beylerbeyi didn't even have its own kitchen: food was brought over from the European shore by boat. After being deposed in 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamit II spent the last years of his life here...The village of Beylerbeyi boasts a pretty harbour with tea houses and a few pleasant restaurants. The nearby Hamidievvel Mosque is unusual in having a rose garden. At weekends, the area by the ferry jetty gets taken over by craft stalls.
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