It is too big and obnoxious to be held in a small unpoliceable warren of backstreets.

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Spittelberg is the Blade Runner of holiday marts with its tightly packed stalls snaking up cobbled backstreets.

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Rickshaws and scooters rattle past while women gossip in the gateways, men play games of mahjong, and kids chase each other through the dusty backstreets, dodging boxes and washing lines.

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Though he sat in plain sight, no one approached him in the restaurant, and as he walked his visitor along backstreets to Manchester Piccadilly, he was stopped only once by a guitarist who asked him where he could meet like-minded musicians.

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In the afternoon, we rent a little local home in one of the prettiest backstreets, a tiny town-house filled with heavily lacquered antique furniture, glowering sepia photographs of ancestors and an aged television perfect for watching equally vintage Turkish soap operas.

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