3 October ’04, Sunday. Yesterday we finally got the oil changed… I don’t know why, but it like pulling teeth on my part to get it done. Now I can put my mind on something else. We followed the oil change with another day in Edirne sightseeing. This is really the first day we have taken just for this. We visited 2 of the largest Mosques in town and 2 of the old market areas as well. Then down the street a little, and we have in front of us some Byzantine and Roman ruins. In one spot of the excavations, we even saw 2 human bones sticking out of the dirt. Nothing can be dug out until there is positive identification put to each little artifact. They strain every shovel of dirt twice before discarding it to the side. We then went to find lunch as time had gotten away from us. As we were walking the streets, and looking for that right place to eat, Louise just had to find a potty place. Yesterday she had found this one location, so that is were we headed this time as well. As she walked out, she noticed these Moslem ladies sitting around a circle, on the ground. They were rolling out, filling, and baking flat bread. The fillings were either cheese, potato, or meat. It smelled so good, and they were such good sales people, we just had to try one…then three… They were fantastic. My favorite was the meat, and for Louise, it was potato. This pretty much filled our day, and we had to go and find another campground. We were not happy with our last one so we checked out. As we pulled into the gates of this new one, were met immediately by this pretty young lady. She didn’t have a lot of confidence in her English, so she called for her mother. Both were very charming and made our choice of locations very easy. They lent us a book Coffee Table book on Edirne, and gave us a visitors comment book to fill out when we left as well. We were told to park anywhere (we were the only one there). We had only just settled in and we had visitors…2 roosters and 4 hens. They were very curious birds, but definitely not timid of us. As we woke this morning, we were surprised that the roosters had been so quiet so late in the morning. We had gone into the showers and as I came back to the van, there was a nice fresh loaf of French bread waiting for us…compliments of the campground. Now, that was a first. We finished dressing, got the breakfast ready, and as we started to eat, the whole flock of chickens decided to join us. Another first…. What a campground !!! There was no doubt, this was one of the best, and number one for hospitality. Now to check out and head again to Istanbul. We were looking again for a different location from the last one. After a couple of U-Turns, around a business district, and a detour or two, we arrived. It is much better than the last here in Istanbul. Tomorrow morning, we take a suitcase, grab a cab and go to the airport to meet Bonnie and Doug, and leave “Bumble Bee” on her own for 12 or more days. This will seem strange…. The 4 of us will be checking into a pension here in Istanbul for a few days and then travel in a rented car down the western coast line of Turkey for a week or more. Say a little prayer for Bumble Bee’s safety as well as ours. Tomorrow…the airport and then the pension “Angel’s Home Hotel”
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1 October ’04, Friday. October 1st and we are still here and enjoying it even more… Today we finished washing. We washed just about everything that was made of cloth or synthetic fibers. It was exhausting but, we just feel soooo good having got it all done. Another goal for the day was to get the oil changed, so we headed in to town to get that done and see it we could get any up-loading done at the internet café. As it was, we did get all the text up-loaded and a few pictures, but the oil change still has to be done. It was just about 5 when we got back to the campground, so we had to start dinner and get all the dried laundry put away before dark. Night time is definitely coming earlier. I took a picture of our candle-lit dinner tonight. This afternoon we went to the grocery store for tonight’s dinner. We decided on a bift steak dinner. After the young lady took our selection out and weighed it, she then proceeded to pound the heck out of it. We were impressed, because we thought we were going to have to do it when we got back to the camper. On our first bite, we thought we probably should have beat it again…it was a little tough… Oh well, the flavor was sure good anyway. For lunch, we stopped by a little sidewalk café. I had these little barbequed lamb meatballs, and Louise had this white broth soup that had some stringy and chewy meat of some kind in it…she didn’t finish it and I can’t imagine why not…. When we got back to the campground from town, we found we were the only one here again. The “Water Truck” had left for Istanbul. It was kind of nice being here all alone….for a while anyway…2 campers (1 VW van) pulled in just at dark. They are both from The Netherlands also. Those from Holland, do travel…. |
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