Hai there, my first blog post is a fact!
The trip went smooth, after we arrived at the hotel we directly hitted the big street to find something to eat. Ofcourse we were walking around like naive tourist and every salesman on the street tried to take adventage of it. It took a couple of hours just to get used to the strategy of keep walking, don't look in their eyes and see NO NO NO ;)
After dinner we start looking for a place to see the football finals and we found a nice local street with some turkish football fans supporting l'espania. The people were friendly and it felt like everyone in the street had a good time. But actually I didn't really follow the plays afterall because I had some deep discussions with Jan...
I asked a turkish guy how to say 'thank you', after he served us the 23049 beer. It was a very chaotic and un-understandable cacophony of words in all kind of languages and gestures. When i thought we were finally understanding eachother he ran away and came back with two buckets of chips... that is what he understanded ;) bit confusing.
After the victory of 'espania we got drunk in the streets and smoked the waterpipe which was and interesting experience! especially when a polonaise of partying spanisch girls went by ;)
to summary some findings:
- you can sell and buy EVERYTHING on the streets
- people who sell things make me feel like they assume I already made the discision or it is already mine, they have figured it all out 'for me': i only have to pay. It's like a one-click-buy system.
- istanbul is like: 'er is een boel' which is dutch for 'there is a lot'
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