random impressions

Well ... I don't have time to stay ... I still have two hours of light to travel through ... or something like that ...


I will post some more soon, but for now, here are some random impressions:

First, there was a definite lack of burning bushes in both dirrections, so I chose for myself: I picked the trucks road (the other one was mountain road, full of holes and curves).

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The Customs in Tasucu is full of frogs. I mean, the grass in front of the cutoms office is, and they all come out after dark.

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There's something that the Turkish people beat the Cypriot people at, hands-down: putting garlic into food; I mean ... the Turks do, the Cypriots, don't. Cypriots should learn!

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What would you like as a main course, sir?
I'ma vegetarian - this is my main course

(I had picked four kinds of salad, bread, butter and watermellon).

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The Turks answer the phone by saying Efendi?

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Turkish hospitality rules. Especially since they don't do it to sell you stuff. I was invited for tea at a gas-station in the middle of nowhere, just to take a break ... well ... a tea and sign-language conversation :)

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The worst decision for this trip was getting the saddlebags I got. They were held by crappy zippers (Zippers for Pete's sake!). On a bump (or another) last night, I lost the right-hand-side saddlebag as the zipper died peacefully and so went all my tools to tool heaven (I don't even have a key).
As a result, I moved all the spares in the other saddlebag into my backpack and ditched the bag: it was just breaking my balance.
Crappy saddlebags!