No I'm not flouncing ;-)
I am headed out to Turkey in about 5 hours. I'll be gone for a week, no idea about internet access. Don't asplode the whole internets while I'm gone!
May your trip be a delight.
I loved Turkey when I visited it a couple of years ago. Very flavorful place to be. Have fun, stay safe. :)
have fun
don't do anything I wouldn't do
Have fun! I am envy!
Eat lots of Pide.
Thanks!! It should be a blast.
Sounds wonderful! I'd love to hide in your luggage just for the chance to shop.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 22, 2011, 03:49:33 PM
May your trip be a delight.
You're a bad, bad man.
I could've gone the obvious route but decided to go for the Narnia reference instead.
Also, you should give many Turkey Curses while in Turkey. Seems like they should be twice as powerful. Make sure you get videos.
Buy many foot stools, and have fun.
Foot stools, my foot. Bring me back yards and yards of pretty Turkish fabric and deliver to Pennsic. :wink:
Have fun, Rat! :D
The sky was full of stars
the acid, oh so clean
an the moonrise over Sığacık
was a slice of tangerine.
Never tripped for 24 hours straight before... I feel as though my soul was taken out, washed and reurned via the swift clean winds of the Aegean Sea.
The food here is amazing, fresh oysters, stuffed with rice, purchased at the docks... cheeses that make the best feta seem lie a poor imitation and delicious spinach in everything.
Drinking a liter of wine with no hangover while playing poi with Purple Eris. It's still so unreal...
Did you go back to Constantinople?!
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on March 27, 2011, 05:46:03 PM
Did you go back to Constantinople?!
No! You can't go back to Constantinople!
:lulz:
:lulz:
Glad you're having a great time, Rat.
Yeah, sounds like a blast. :)
Fresh oysters are wonderful.
Where in Turkey? I've only been in the neighbourhood of Antalya (south coast).
I can't give you much pointers though, there's loads of cool stuff and it's easy to find. There's also annoying stuff (I dislike the aggressive selling and haggling/bartering culture at the markets) and I haven't figured out how to avoid it without avoiding the whole "you're in Turkey" part ;-)
Maybe to go to a Hamam (?), bath houses where you get massages and oil scrubbings and you come out all squeaky clean and slightly pink :) They're not too expensive and definitely worth it (not that I have been to one, but all my family was really enthousiastic about them).
I heard Turkish food is really good.
Like Greek but less greasy.
They don't have really proper cheese though. I've been fooled many times by stuff that looks like a kind of braided mozzarella but is in fact really really salty tough stuff.
I'd love to visit Turkey again. It was such a surprise what a delightful time--and what absofuckinglutely gorgeous the landscape is--can be had there. I was amazed. The food was good, the shopkeepers quaintly hilarious in their old worldness (sending tea boys to fetch trays of tea, wine, coffee, whathaveyou, for instance, through the streets of the bazaar for any clientele who looked like they were buying).
10/10, would visit again.
And now I'm home.
On the up side, I had one of the most amazing experiences of my life... I chose to be fearless and play, rather than hide safely in my little world... in return I got to have an awesome week in an amazing country and got to hang out with that crazy Purple Eris.
On the down side, when I got home Sjaantze, Harbinger of Distraction and I broke up after 10 years (9 years of awesome, 1 year of falling apart). It is rough, but it is better I think to break up now while we are still friends than to wait for the fights and arguments that we've been narrowly avoiding for the past six months. I suppose in some sense, my week in Turkey was me running away from the inevitable, or maybe just taking some time for myself to think about what the inevitable was.
An amazing trip, with a sad ending... yet somehow it feels kind of balancing.
I wonder what happens next?
Wow, that's both great and full of suckage, Rat.
My congrats and sympathies, all in one.
Quote from: Ratatosk on April 01, 2011, 05:23:13 PM
And now I'm home.
On the up side, I had one of the most amazing experiences of my life... I chose to be fearless and play, rather than hide safely in my little world... in return I got to have an awesome week in an amazing country and got to hang out with that crazy Purple Eris.
On the down side, when I got home Sjaantze, Harbinger of Distraction and I broke up after 10 years (9 years of awesome, 1 year of falling apart). It is rough, but it is better I think to break up now while we are still friends than to wait for the fights and arguments that we've been narrowly avoiding for the past six months. I suppose in some sense, my week in Turkey was me running away from the inevitable, or maybe just taking some time for myself to think about what the inevitable was.
An amazing trip, with a sad ending... yet somehow it feels kind of balancing.
I wonder what happens next?
You move to Providence.
Or Tucson.
Or Both.
Quote from: Ratatosk on April 01, 2011, 05:23:13 PM
And now I'm home.
On the up side, I had one of the most amazing experiences of my life... I chose to be fearless and play, rather than hide safely in my little world... in return I got to have an awesome week in an amazing country and got to hang out with that crazy Purple Eris.
On the down side, when I got home Sjaantze, Harbinger of Distraction and I broke up after 10 years (9 years of awesome, 1 year of falling apart). It is rough, but it is better I think to break up now while we are still friends than to wait for the fights and arguments that we've been narrowly avoiding for the past six months. I suppose in some sense, my week in Turkey was me running away from the inevitable, or maybe just taking some time for myself to think about what the inevitable was.
An amazing trip, with a sad ending... yet somehow it feels kind of balancing.
I wonder what happens next?
Sorry to hear about the breakup, glad it wasn't a total shitfest and you can still get along, it's better that way if you can manage it.
Aw mannnn ... that sucks :(
It does suck, because 10 years makes for a comfortable existence... but life is constantly on the move and changes are inevitable. We probably should have done this a year ago, but were too scared, or deluded... or whatever.
I will miss her, but I will still have her as a friend and that is OK.