The streets of Constantinople were alive and healthy even as the sun began to set over the Mediterranean.
It took Bruno a while, but eventually he was able to get away from his daughter- and son-in-law. Taking Heidi out with him on the streets of the ancient city.
It was such a different place than when he had been there nearly thirty years prior. The city had modernized in many ways, and yet kept the core of what made it ancient all the same.
Greek citizens walked the streets, crosses hanging from their necks, as they went about their evenings. Some patrons stopped by bars; some families sat at restaurants. And others walked peacefully through the thin veil of snow, which somehow managed to make the place more beautiful.
Heidi couldn't help but stop at every little venue that caught her eye. Buying trinkets off the street vendors as if she were a royal princess, and instead just some commoner who had left her home country for the first time.
