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Day 28, Aug 9 (167km) - New Country New Outlook
... had the carrier on the back of my bike pop off. Luckily I had outrun the pack by then.
Once I got to Edirne I had an energy drink and paprika chips. Not because I was craving them necessarily but because it reminded me of Cat and her extensive diet plan. Edirne itself was a pleasant surprise. there was a lot of activity and there were a lot of statues and fountains all over. Walking around was quite nice before heading back to the A/C of the hotel. ...
Debut kebab!
Another early start today courtesy of the smoking hot room, the mozzies and the amount of fluid lost sweating through the night. We packed up and made tracks, happy to find Blanche where we left her having not been violated, except for the Romanian strip club lesbian show leaflet on the windscreen... something I definitely wouldn't be interested in.
Heading south towards Bulgaria the road took us over the Bucegi ...
On to Turkey.
... by me.
After lunch we visited the largest of the local mosques. "Soaring toward the heavens, the vast Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, Turkey, represents the pinnacle of Sinan's achievement. Light flooding through curtain walls illuminates geometric designs, arabesques, and phrases from the Koran. The mosque was built by Sinan in the 1570s for Selim II, Suleyman's son and successor." It was built to impress and I was impressed. Before we ...
Talkin' Turkey
... skelter in no mans land, were customs agents. But now we had a car behind us, and he couldn’t let us go forward. We managed to get the guy behind us to back up, and we turned around back to no mans land, found an agent who just gave us a glance and stamped my passport and away we went back to, and easily though, the final checkpoint.
It took about 2 hours, and we both managed to more or less keep our coold through the whole thing… really what can you ...
Turkısh delıght
... we subsequently dıscovered Iskender. Thıs ıs a dısh of thın slıces of roast lamb served on a thıck pıta wıth a rıch tomatoe sauce and yogurt on the sıde. Sımple but delıcıous. Thıs may be the only Turkısh food word that I need to learn. We are already fındıng other Turkısh food customs that we really enjoy as well. For one we enjoy the several small cups of tea (chaı) ...
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