trivia from Turkey

People in Turkey do the two cheek air kisses while shaking hands which I found interesting.

People are very friendly.  When they see you looking at a map on the tram,  English speakers will ask if they can help. (I think more people speak English than I originally thought so that’s a good thing)

We are walking an average of 15000 steps each day. (I actually wore a pedometer just for the fun of it that’s how I know).  Another piece of useless info is that a mile is 2250 steps, that’s Carol steps)

Fewer people cover their hair here than in Istanbul.  I haven’t seen anyone who covers their face.

They do have a loudspeaker announcing prayer time (i think 5 times a day) but we usually only notice it in the evening from the hotel because the window is open.

We could probably do a different cafe each day for the year and not do the same one twice.

We forgot the camera today but I promise pictures tomorrow!

Over breakfast we met a guy from England who is bicycling around the world.  He plans on taking 5 years.  He’s only been at it for a few months. He’s alone now but he has friends joining him for different continents.  Now that’s an adventure!!!

I don’t think I’ve mentioned that everyone is welcome to visit us.  I know it’s an out of the way place but we can offer a bedroom and  reasonable restaurants so once you’re here the costs would be pretty low.  We would love to show off our new home!