Get into the local swing of things and load your breakfast plate with tangy sheep's-milk cheese, plump olives, flavourful tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, home-made jam and freshly-baked crusty white bread or simit (a sesame-encrusted bread ring).

BBC: A perfect day in Istanbul

When you take into account the ease with which they inhabit the ocean, free dive to depths of 15m or more, hold their breath for minutes, hunt for turtles, shells and sea cucumbers, and navigate between distant islands, led only by instinct, both names are equally fitting.

BBC: The end of a wandering way of life?