The BBC's Disabilities Correspondent Peter White
We’re off to Byzantium for today’s Geo Quiz. Legend has it the city of Byzantium was founded by ancient Greeks who sailed across the Aegean Sea. Someone must have given the sailors directions:
“Enter the narrow strait called the Dardanelles, go all the way across the Sea of Marmara, and then hang a right at the Bosphorous”.
You can’t miss it.
“The Bosphorous runs through the city, imagine a sea running through a city, with one continent on one side of it, and another continent on the other side of it,” says the BBC’s Peter White who recently made his way to the city once known as Byzantium, later Constantinople and now Istanbul, the answer to our Quiz. Istanbul is the latest stop in Peter’s radio documentary called ‘Blind Man Roams The Globe’
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Ali Sami Yen Stadium is the home of soccer club Galatasaray SK (photo: Galatasaray Spor Kulübü)
Peter recently also enjoyed a baseball game at the Oakland Coliseum
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