The Bosphorus: we travel by boat up the majestic waterway that separates Europe from Asia, and links the Black Sea ports of Russia and Ukraine to the Mediterranean. There is much to see on either side of the waterway as we make our way to the Sadberk Hanım Museum, a major private collection of archaeology and Turkish works of art and costumes.

Optional evening visit to a traditional Turkish bath, built by a sultan in the middle of the eighteenth century [didn’t happen], and Special Christmas dinner in the evening.