Trabzon is not on the tourist trail. Well, it isn’t for those of us from northern Europe, America, or most places west of Turkey itself. Apparently, it is popular with visitors from the Middle East, mostly because it’s the nearest place with the novelty of regular rain.
Trabzon sits on Turkey’s northern coast, abutting the Black Sea — a body of water so low in salt that you could almost drink it, were it not for the appalling pollution levels. Trabzon’s been here a while — the…