Turkish delight: Luxury cruising around the Mediterranean

If ever there was a city in which to arrive by sea, Istanbul must surely be it. It’s a city that deserves a grand entrance; a skyline better viewed in profile than from above, to fully appreciate the curved domes and spiked minarets of the city’s 3000 mosques and the giant Turkish flags that boldly flutter in between.

We arrive on a still autumn morning, slowly cruising up the Bosphorus as the ethereal glow of first light spills over the city, calling us closer. In time,…