‘Not bad!’: Swimming between continents in Istanbul

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ISTANBUL, Aug 5 — Every morning, his skin bronzed by the sun, pensioner Metin Cakmakci rushes to grab a deckchair under a parasol on his local beach on the Asian side of...

ISTANBUL, Aug 5 — Every morning, his skin bronzed by the sun, pensioner Metin Cakmakci rushes to grab a deckchair under a parasol on his local beach on the Asian side of Istanbul.

But just like the locals of New York, Beirut and a handful of other global cities, Istanbulites can swim all summer long and return home on the metro with sand trapped under their sandals and salt layering their skin.“Now, of course, you have buildings everywhere. The coastline has changed. We all now live on top of each other, in a way.”

Istanbul has 85 accessible beaches or bathing spots between the Black Sea in the north, the Sea of Marmara in the south and the Bosphorus Strait in between. No-one mentions the two mines that washed up in this area earlier this year — a haunting reminder of the war pitting Ukraine against its Russian invaders on the far side of the Black Sea.Finally, there are the bathers of the Bosphorus, who swim between Europe and Asia under the serene gaze of the city’s grand palaces.

 

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