In the last two weeks I was spontaneously holiday in Turkey, because the boyfriend of my aunt got sick and I stand in for him was allowed. I'm concerned, I would not fly on holiday, or in Turkey or with a tour group, but there has just come up and I made a holiday for years have ... more the whole time because I do not want to be online, I have written similar blogged aka diary, what I would like to post here now. (More pictures like this here's . )
21/10/2010
Everyone else is in my tour group of 50 to 70 (up to a young couple, but which seem quite a philistine to be) and everyone except me rolling case. # Fail
So, enough bitching, now for the better: Istanbul is the most beautiful city I've ever seen. It's huge! There are two airports. The larger one, the Atatürkflughafen, has a diameter of 180 km! This is the mega mega mega mega metropolis here, hey!
There are over 800 mosques (with minarets: D). Wherever one looks, one sees that. It's fantastic. Today we were in the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque). In there it smells like wet dog, as all the tourists walking around with their sight-seeing sweat socks in there, but other than that it is huge and beautiful. There are no pictures in it because Islam forbids. This is found everywhere ornate gold Arabic script shorthand. Outside we could hear the Muezinruf. I thought it was very solemn and awe-inspiring, especially because of the nearby mosques to wait with their songs to each other and take turns.
Our guide seems to be nice, but somehow funny. He is well educated (double masters in politics and history), Turk, by the way, and incredibly political. Probably I will discuss in the next few days with him about Wulff, the Prophet Mohammed, secularism and the importance of the headscarf. Unsuccessful, probably.
the evening we had a four-course meal in a small restaurant, in which several buses were flown with German tourists. The food was very greasy, but delicious and amazing fleischarm. Given the fact that I was next to the employees as well, the youngest, I had a while Augensex with the waiter, whose name I do not know. He waved goodbye and just said "bye bye!" Presumably's has mitgekriegt except the two of us not one, because all the others talked of raki, ouzo and cruises. So I'm looking forward just inside me ...
Now we have arrived at the hotel. It is 19:56 in Germany, so 20:56 here. I'm exhausted and go kip for now.
22/10/2010
Yesterday I totally forgot a lot to write. First of something else to traffic here: that is the hammer! Prague shit isn it. Most importantly ne Hupe, everything else is optional. Is constantly jam, especially on the bridge. But then walk around on the 6-8-lane road between the tracks of people selling water, sesame donuts or candy. There are a lot of "Taksis" that are so yellow post. And in the front line of buses sitting still someone who sells tickets (determined so that the driver is more focused on the traffic). Pedestrians just walk back and forth in between, pretty chill. I'm surprised that we have seen no accident. Visit
we have the Hagia Sophia (Church of Holy Wisdom) and the Topkapi Palace. The Hagia Sophia is now a museum (Atatürk's idea) and was originally a church, which was then converted into a mosque. That is why the pictures were painted over, which are now partially exposed.
The palace was also nice, but something I just do not stand Sun
later we are still been on a spice market. I have the crowds and the noise totally enjoyed and got me every time when I was getting to taste. :) 
There near me was a small mosque, we had a look. I really like them much better than the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, because there were not many tourists there, and all women had to wear a headscarf. Therefore, it appears real and less staged, so you could also feel better that this is a sacred space. the late afternoon we have made a boat trip on the Bosphorus. And I have to NEM Bridges first discovered here in street form of a relatively small but very beautiful graffiti. Yeah! Unfortunately, I've got it failed to take a picture. Well ...
Oh yes, yes today is Friday. So there's a way to noon prayers sermon (I'm not sure if that in Islam it means) of the Imam. It is transmitted over the minaret loudspeakers. Our guide then told that it is always good to listen to hear if the Imam (party) political. And that he has shown why only five imams (secular state and all) and two of them now are in jail and why he has now NEN gun license. # WTF? I say yes: Secularism = shit.
23/10/2010
Istanbul This morning we have unfortunately already left. I would have liked to stay for the whole two weeks there. Would I choose a city can, I want to live in, I'd take Istanbul (at least if I could speak Turkish ^ ^). Well, maybe that's just my current euphoria.
any case, I am on the way to the airport again noticed how fascinating the houses are here. It seems all so nested and stacked There are old houses and new buildings and also a lot of seemingly unused shells, but all together. On the facades, there are lots billboards in various sizes (not so with the DIN standard in Germany: D). Some have only text, and other images. And I find it especially cool that it publicity photos for fashion or perfume or jewelry with women are acting more Western and some who where the women wear headscarves, again all together. The mix is great. In the park next to the coastal road in the morning are little groups of sleeping dogs, while cats are current already.
In Turkey there are also large chains such as McDonalds or Starbucks. What I had not expected, however, is that there are also practitioners. : D
Now I'm in Avanos, in Cappadocia. Somehow, only grass steppe. There's only Pottery and sugar beet fields. Very sad. Is determined but also the weather, it's cool and cloudy. Cappadocia is famous for its tufa Mountains and the caves located therein be and cities. We'll see tomorrow we are one of them.
Since we have this evening free, but is nothing around the hotel, I looked at my earlier Turkish Fernsehn. The soaps are still been acting worse than ours. And talk shows are very funny, at least the facial expressions and gestures, because everything I understand nothing. But the movies are dubbed really badly ...
I will now try again, NEN to find great radio station, maybe a D & B or a Turkish hip-hop. Until then.
10/25/2010
Yesterday I was too tired to write something. Today really well ...
Cappadocia is fascinating. The tufa caves are all really cool to wander around in it around. On the other hand, it is also the same everywhere, and landscapes are somehow not my case. Today we Nevşehir, an underground city visited. Well, actually more of a giant bunker. Yesterday we were in Goreme, an above-ground cave town with many small family churches from different centuries. Unfortunately, we could take pictures in the best of it and not the other caves were sometimes quite nasty, because apparently some people who use to pee.
the rest of the days we spent on the bus and on photo stops. I thought that was embarrassing ... as the tourists went by bus to the viewpoints and then there they made cheap souvenirs. morning's on to Konya, where we will look at a carpet. Our guide has already raved all day of it, so I'm still a little anxious.
I also did yesterday, "Felidae" read to the end (thanks, Greg) and I will now focus once again a Christopher Moore book. Oh yes! Another thing: this morning (! 6:10 clock) for the first time I've been through a balloon ride! Geil! 300 feet above Cappadocia at sunrise ... So must feel good vacation. : D
26/10/2010
Our guide is an asshole and indeed a very populist, ignorant, homophobic, Stasi asshole. Yesterday he called for the death penalty for child molesters and today I thought he cited Sarrazin ...
And the idiots on the bus also vote him too. -.-
We are now in Konya. There is the Mevlana Monastery, where the Whirling Dervishes were formed. It is now a museum and a large mausoleum. Everywhere are grave times on it with dervish hats. And there was again a beard of the Prophet-relic, of which there was also plenty of Topkapi Palace and other relics, such as the stick of Moses. ^ ^ Now we are in a horny monster hotel, the Rixos-Konya. Our room is in the 9th of a total of 25 floors and has a glass front, with mega view, especially in the dark.
Konya itself is a huge city: 1.3 million inhabitants, ie about the same as Munich. There are also slums, where Roma live, what I always find very fascinating because it is somehow so different, but also beautiful.
As for me here are charged very many sick or malnourished dogs and kittens. I do all so sorry if they come to me and beg, but I have nothing for them. Best I would take it all. The other passengers seems to make nothing, but to me it almost breaks your heart ... Sun morning's off to Antalya.
Ah yes, the carpet. So it was interesting, but somehow as if I'd do ne Lamborghini test drive: I can not afford anyway. Why I did the following sales pitch only very short. ^ ^
10/28/2010
From Antalya we are this afternoon down to the sea and are now in the hotel in this connection weeks (one week beach vacation all inclusive) arrived, which is located between Side and Manavgat.
As I wrote yesterday have nothing, I must now make up the time yet.
Antalya itself is actually similar to Konya: big, but not quite as bustling as Istanbul and surrounded by fields and orchards of citrus fruits, cotton, pomegranate trees, sugar beets, potatoes and cabbage. From time to time there are also a fig tree, an olive grove, or a flock of sheep (with shepherd and dog), sometimes on cows, (but much less at a time as us). In Antalya we have this morning visited a jewelry factory and a leather fashion house, where you only bequatscht and then pursued by a seller was. Evil annoying ...
The cultural highlight of yesterday was the visit of the ancient theater in Aspendos, today it was the Atatürk Statue in Antalya. Yes ... and now I'm an all-inclusive holiday maker with a bright blue plastic bands on the wrist. Embarrassing ...
morning, when it's light, I here by electroless first the site and look for the beach, in the hope that it not be re-poured with rain, like today (which incidentally was badly impressed much water at once).
29/10/2010
Today is National Day in Turkey, because of the proclamation of the Republic by Ataturk 1923rd Therefore, in front of the main restaurant was a gold Atatürkbüste placed before dinner and all guests were given a free cocktail. Too bad that we are so isolated here, I would like to know what happened today in Istanbul or Ankara. Otherwise the day today was quite nice and relaxing. Resist the weather forecast this morning we had bright blue sky. The sea is beautiful and totally warm. Unfortunately, there are currently quite high waves, so I did not really married into it (yeah, landlubber ... and so what will be a pirate). In the afternoon there was still a storm, we spent sparrows FEEDING under the umbrella of a beach bar.
Tonight I was finally time for me alone and I'm still a bit of running around on the beach. Now I'm gorged from the evening buffet and again too tired to go dancing more. But hey, I did indeed leave. : D
30/10/2010
Today I am very ninglig because I had a fever since this morning and fully annoying head cold.
But today was a very nice day that I spent mostly on the beach to get in the lead, no sunburn, which I have ever succeeded. But me today, the Turkish Sales culture extremely annoyed. You lie on the beach and is constantly babbles and any one, whether you want to do parasailing, or whether it can take pictures one (and if I had a friend -.- NEN) and if you very kindly, but firmly say "No thank you." ask "Why?" and want to know where you come from Germany and would be so great (Who loves Germany, must be crap!) and also because they know who and German tourists were also much better than Russian, naknak. It's always the same.
If you imagine a store the goods for a moment to look long, the seller shall immediately jumped out and told a exactly the same as the Photographers and the surf school owner, except that he seems more like a spider that jumps out to a corner on the fly struggling to wrap it.
As there was not much going on today, tell me something to eat: There are very tasty cheese in Turkey, with most of the varieties I tried are very strong in taste. Pork, there is not, of course, but lots of lamb (on that I ran but can not now real) and turkey. are citrus fruits, grapes and pomegranates it and eggplant, olives, peppers and some damn hot pepper. The most impressive however, are the desserts. First I have tried Turkish delight. Mega Yummy! Then there are honey-soaked pastry variations, which are very sweet but also very tasty. You can only eat snacks. And then there's fascinating cakes, with cream and sugar, cream, decorated always lovely.
Yesterday there was so little fried balls, much like very very small fritters in honey syrup, an Anatolian specialty whose name I just could not remember unfortunately.
And since this is an international family hotel here: for breakfast there's always pancakes with chocolate sauce! : D
11/01/2010
I'm still sick, feel mixed but since tonight better. sea I have today to cancel for health reasons, but will make up for tomorrow. ;)
Today we are with the dolmus (pronounced Dolmusch), which are driven to funny short buses to Side and have the historical city center (from the 2nd century viewed).
I also have the same opportunity once used to the much acclaimed to try Turkish secret recipe ice . Very tasty, but has a crazy texture, a bit like soft gum. The seller gave me a 3-year warranty on it. Before long, there came two little kittens also liked the ice. One even ate the waffle with.
After the trip I was incredibly tired, so I do the rest of the day had just rested.
11/02/2010
The day went like this:
breakfast, beach, ocean, sea, sea, beach, beach, lunch, beach, beach, beach, beach, sea, bummer Surf School type quatscht me again full, chill dinner. Tomorrow is our last day here and I suspect that he will run like ... : D
04/11/2010
3:22 clock at night. We sit at the gate and wait for the plane that is scheduled to begin at 4 clock.
was expected, the day yesterday from the sea, beach, food, sea and beach. I was collecting rocks and stones scattered (any course in his day).
Now I think it's time for a little summary.
Turkey's great. But only if it clearly comes with certain things: first
Tourism
tourism is an industry. This is sometimes very handy, but often very annoying and artificial.
second Toilets
Turkish toilets taken in a ceramic hole in the ground, through which you are sitting just over it. At tourist sites but there's usually the toilets, we know.
third Near-distance relationship
Turks (also male) have in contrast to the German-shifted near-distance relationship or they simply think that tourists would love it. The constant hugging, touching, distribute hand and cheek kiss as I stand very, very difficult.
4th Praise Germany
For Anti-German Turkey is difficult bearable. At each corner is fully talked of how great "Alemania" and the Germans like to give you the score ...
5th Meat consumption
As a vegetarian you have it not in Turkey just as certainly not vegan.
6th Homophobia
Many modern Turks have a problem with homosexuality, which is accepted in major cities rather than rural. I would still not create it, show it publicly.
All in all I can say that I had a great holiday. It was a good experience that I have made, but would not repeat, at least not as a tour group ... Now I will first have to get used to the fall, but since I probably do not come around drum. ^ ^
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