When in Turkey ...
• One minute you can be exploring buildings that are 1500 years old and the next having coffee in Starbucks.
• Tea is the drink of choice, and "take out" tea is available in an old traditional form. Tea is delivered by smartly dressed men in small glasses on silver trays. These men deliver tea to shop keepers in market stalls and even taxi drivers waiting at taxi stands. The customer takes a glass from the tray, deposits money, and takes one, two or three cubes of sugar. Later the tea man returns for the empty glasses - an old traditional custom with no recycling required!
• Merchants at many of the tourist stalls offer "genuine fake watches" along with many other trinkets - some how we were able to resist.
• While on the boat (more details below), it was a little windy and rather rough one day. "Where are the life jackets?", someone asked. Another quick-witted passenger retorted, "Weren't you paying attention during the safety video?" (Needless to say, in a country with no life jackets, there was also no safety video!)
• One minute you can be exploring buildings that are 1500 years old and the next having coffee in Starbucks.
• Tea is the drink of choice, and "take out" tea is available in an old traditional form. Tea is delivered by smartly dressed men in small glasses on silver trays. These men deliver tea to shop keepers in market stalls and even taxi drivers waiting at taxi stands. The customer takes a glass from the tray, deposits money, and takes one, two or three cubes of sugar. Later the tea man returns for the empty glasses - an old traditional custom with no recycling required!
• Merchants at many of the tourist stalls offer "genuine fake watches" along with many other trinkets - some how we were able to resist.
• While on the boat (more details below), it was a little windy and rather rough one day. "Where are the life jackets?", someone asked. Another quick-witted passenger retorted, "Weren't you paying attention during the safety video?" (Needless to say, in a country with no life jackets, there was also no safety video!)