Baklava: An adventure in Turkey....

IT WAS STILL snowing hard in Turkey -— Istanbul on the Bosphorus was trying to come to terms with the unexpectedly heavy fall. 

Everyone seemed to be having fun except the traffic police, quirky snowmen were popping up all over the place, each reflecting the creativity of its high-spirited sculptor.

Snowball fights round every corner and traffic at a crawl. We abandoned the car and eventually got to Karaköy Güllüo?glu, home to the Mecca of baklava and related confections, to try to learn the secrets of this most Turkish of sweetmeats.