The U.S. vice president was in Turkey the past couple of days to discuss serious issues with the country´s leaders. In an otherwise serious political story about his visit in the Washington Post, there was this final paragraph, about Biden and his wife visiting a bazaar in Sultanahmet. It made me smile:

As a soft snow fell on Istanbul, they then toured a covered shopping area, where the vice president bought his wife a necklace after Jill Biden and a Secret Service agent persuaded the shopkeeper to lower his price from $350 to $100.