Wow... it's like me with Constantinople. Which yeah, is not called Constantinople anymore, but you know what made me want to see that city?
When we were about 11 or 12 there was a drama on CITV called The Sea Dragon, about a Saxon/English youth who got kidnapped by the Vikings and sold into slavery. And later I got the book it was based on, by Rosemary Sutcliffe, and there was this bit at the end about him being a free man in Constantinople, writing this story with the lamp on and looking out at the winding street...
Blood and Gold didn't help either. Actually, I blame that book entirely for my developing a wanderlust. (Wanderlust is of course balanced by absolute terror of travelling.) Come to think of it, Constantinople is in there too... why can't we have time travel?
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When we were about 11 or 12 there was a drama on CITV called The Sea Dragon, about a Saxon/English youth who got kidnapped by the Vikings and sold into slavery. And later I got the book it was based on, by Rosemary Sutcliffe, and there was this bit at the end about him being a free man in Constantinople, writing this story with the lamp on and looking out at the winding street...
Blood and Gold didn't help either. Actually, I blame that book entirely for my developing a wanderlust. (Wanderlust is of course balanced by absolute terror of travelling.) Come to think of it, Constantinople is in there too... why can't we have time travel?