Freelance writer and photojournalist, writing about UK, Europe, East Coast USA and occasionally, the Caribbean. A regular contributor to the Sunday Telegraph on France and the USA. Author of several guidebooks and contributor to several best selling guide book series and coffee table books. As writer-editor of About.com United Kingdom Travel, Ferne Arfin manages a New York Times-owned website presenting United Kingdom destinations to a global audience.
"The setting is superb, like Rome, Istanbul is built on seven hills, and as with the eternal city, the simultaneity of past and present thrives here. At the confluence of Islam and Christianity, Istanbul groans under the weight of its own history. More impressive than any veneer of twenty-first century excess are the ones far removed. Those ancient layers form the very fabric of this city of over 20 million inhabitants."
