In Istanbul I’ve been staying in Harbiye, a neighborhood just north of Taksim. Harbiye is my old stomping grounds from 2003 and 2004, before I moved across the Bosphorus to another neighborhood called Moda.

This is Cumhuriyet Caddesi, one of the main drags heading south into Taksim. To the left is the French school (a private school). Behind the French school is a church and the Vatican consulate, but you can’t see them in the video.

Cumhuriyet Caddesi (Republic Street) in Harbiye from Matt Krause on Vimeo.