Last night was spent enjoying a dinner cruise up the Bosphorous Strait -- the thin strait connecting the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara. This is a very strategic strait, as this is where all the oil and gas from Russia comes down. It is also the divider between Europe and Asia. The bridge in the photo is the first of two bridges dividing the two continents.
So, the Bosphorous was important as a sub-plot in James Bond's "The World is not Enough" in which the baddies were going to blow up a nuclear submarine at the entrance to the Bosphorous, and prevent oil and gas from being brought down the strait.
This is only one of two Bond films set in Istanbul, and today we will visit the site of filming of one of the other movies -- "From Russia With Love" in which they are in the underground "Basilica Cistern" -- basically the excavation site for rock used in the Ayasofia, which was filled with water via an aqueduct system gathering water from 21 miles around the city. Some of these ancient aqueducts are still visible around the city.
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