You know you’re really starting to overshare on your LJ when the anti-porn filter at the internets cafes blocks your blog from opening! Yes it happened to me yesterday and again at a different cafe today! Every time I went to open my page the anti-porn filter came up with a pop up advising of adult content and closing the window!!! Must be all that home made porn I posted last week! 🙂
Anyway… back to the program. This morning we left Çanakkale which was very sad… we had to check out of our fancy hotel and come back down in the world!!! The Maydos Hotel was probably the best 7Euro I spent since I hit the continent!!! They did a great brekkie for us at 6.30am so we didnt miss our ferry.
We hopped on a bus and it drove onto a ferry that took us back over to the Penninsula for the drive back to Istanbul/ I have to admit having a moment of apprehension when I realised that we were going on one of those god awful car ferries that you read about in the paper….. “Ferry sinks off the Turkish Coast this moring 3am AEST – 358 dead!!!” You know that sort of thing. Drunk pilot… over loaded… no life jackets etc etc. But thankfully we survived and became neither statistic nor headline! Yay for possibly sober pilot!
So after surviving the perilous ferry ride… we had a 6 hour drive into Istanbul, which was equally uneventful. Sick to death of buses … and vowing never to take one at home! They are so strange with them here… everytime the bus stops they wash it! There is a strange little man who walks down the aisle giving you some strange lemon alcohols stuff to wash your hands with that smells like furniture polish or something and the Turks love the stuff! They play hideous movies like “Little Man” but dubbed into Turkish (which I think actually improves them!!!) and you cant use your phone but the driver can smoke!!! :S Go figure!!!! We got back into the Sultanahmet and it felt like coming home – everything recognizable again! 🙂 But you know you’ve been in the country too long when a Big Mac is looking appealing just for it’s being familiar.
Turkey is a great country and I would definitely come back …. on one proviso… they discover Frozen Cokes! This place is more in need of Frozen Cokes than any other place on the planet I reckon. I cant believe it is so hot and they dont have them! 🙂 Will be wanting one of these as soon as I get home I think… that and a manicure!!! :S
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Got A big day o’shopping planned for tomorrow… I need new shoes! Cos the ones I have been wearing everywhere are held together with superglue! And some more demure clothing to try and be a little unobtrusive in Pakistan of course 🙂
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