More of Wonderful Turkey

Yayyyyy for Turkey and adventures!!!




Sunset on the beach shot


Like every good EUropean+tourist we joined the masses by having beers on the bus from the airport to the hotel! Efes is the Turkish beer


Ingrained in my brain is one of the first sites of Turkey!!


Of course one of my favorite places to hang out was the table full of desserts.


This portrait of delicious Turkish food could be in a magazine!


Spicy......shout out to Sara Ghent


Saw many many mosques and it was very interesting to hear the call to prayer everyday. Only saw one group of people praying in a market one day.


Saw this allll over


There was no security or protection at these amazing ruins, people were drying clothes on them and just hangin out all over the place


In the old ruins





Beach shot


Yummm we had fresh orange and pomagranate juice from Opa'S stand, so good


Structure on the beach in Side....


Beautiful lights....I wanted to buy one very bad but had no way of getting it home.


This delicious plate of food cost.....75 euro cents. And was delicious followed by turkish tea of course.


One of the days we wandered around neighborhoods in Manavgat, while we ate we watched this guy pray in the park with some friends then he was waiting for something here.....


A cute couple that swam in the cold sea every morning, the hotel had a song that played every morning 'guten morgen, guten morgen, guten morgen sonnenschein'


A castle on the sea in Alanya, I took this picture from a boat.


This is one of the many forms of Kebaps we ate and the drink in his hand is the national drink calles Ayran, I found out it tasted like sour yogurt so the one time I had it I took it like a shot, I had to try it :)

Hey guys! Thanks to everyone for reading my blog!
TURKEY (Türkei for the Germans) was an amazing experience and I could tell you all the details but will try to tell the story in pictures because I took over 200! There was sun, a beach!, great markets, bazaars, great people watching, adventuring, and good food all along. I was glad that I went with a travel budy because I think I would have been a little apprehensive to adventure on my own (and most people there spoke German and not English!)In the end it felt very safe and the people were very nice and often surprised that someone from America was there.
Cities seen- Ocurkalor, Side, Alanya, Manavgat, Antalya
Food eaten- Baklava!! Kebaps, Lots of Tzatiki, cucumbers and cheese!
Favorite memories:singing kareoke, the table full of desserts, walking through a neighborhood and seeing kids playing at a park, drinking turkish tea all the time!, finding the grandma pants and getting a deal on them...(you will soon see them family:)) - finding markets all over the place and wandering around them.
Since it is the down season anytime we would walk around a bazaar everyone would try to entice us into their store by calling Jörn Chef and me angel. (chef means boss in German) quite funny.

I'm going to do two seperate posts to make it easier to post and read!
ENJOY


Turkey- land of the eternal markets and evil eyes


A real market folks....


Patrick needs these for his van



Ataturk was all over the place, the founder of Turkey


Always searching for a good bike shot


Hanging out and drinking some beer and writing postcards...


Jörn got the turkish shave where they use the big blade and flame the ears,it was fun to watch and now that I know how to do it I can flame anyones ears who will let me :)


The waterfalls in Manavgat. I read about them and they sounded quite impressive but they and the tourist trap around them was not. I think the bus ride there was the best part


Beach shot


Yes....the hotel we stayed at had a disco that was open until 2am every night, we did venture down there one night and danced the night away with three other people. Oh the good times :)


The bazaar that was a close walk and where we got acccosted every time we wandered around.

Hey Hamburg

Here are some pictures I have taken of rainy Hamburg :)


Ahhhh I love the colorful bikes all over the place!


Stevo and Joern eating the best burgers in Hamburg, in a bar surrounded by futbol, gotta lvoe it.

Here I go again! I feel less like a tourist this time.......


The delicious Super Bowl food. Tacos and Sloppy Joes, we all stayed up until 5am to watch the game (but mostly the commercials!)


Went to a photo exhibition on a rainy day and this kid was too cute, so excited to be there as well


Lot's of umbrellas my first week in Hamburg, hopefully that will change!


THE MAN

Soooo here I am in Hamburg and it is a much different Europe than when I left in July. I think there have been four straight days of rain and wind, but that is expected as I suppose it is winter time. It is finally clearing up and allowing for more exploring and adventuring.
The last few days I visited Itzehoe, Hoehenlockstedt, Gluckstadt, and some other small cities about an hour away from Hamburg. Joern took me to his hometown where we met Karin and Olaf who made a delicious dinner and were so nice, it worked out well that we had our own translator to help us communicate.
Friday night was party night. Went to a birthday party and then with a big group out to the Reeperbahn. It was a pretty crazy place but brought back memories of Prague and the party atmosphere that is all over the place.

Sunday night there was a super bowl party with a few die hards who all stayed up until 5am! We made tacos and sloppy joes and had some good German beer and the few Fat Tires that I fit into my luggage.
Yesterday was spent walking around the neighborhood and going to four grocery stores i think just to be curious.

Tonight is the flight to Side, Turkey. I am super excited and I know I will see a lot more and have some cool photos to share with you. It is winter so less will be going on and I probably will not be sunbathing but I hope to see some villages and some ruins and maybe some whirling dervishes!! And I CANNOT wait for some delicious Turkish food and mountians of Baklava!

Guten Abend!!
Tschuss (See ya!))

New Adventures in Germany

I have arrived :) It was a home alone-esque trip with fights breaking out next to me on the plane and me sprinting through the airport to make the last call for the fight to Hamburg, but it worked out well in the end. I made it to Hamburg at 7 in the morning here which would be 1 in the morning my time and tried to fight it through the day to get over the jet lag. Joern picked me up from the airport and it was quite cold yesterday so we went to the famous IKEA store that has lovely swedish food and lots of stuf I would have bought if I could have brought it home. After that we braved the cold and went for a walk in a big park near his house, saw the obseravatory, played on the cool toys they have here (its like New Zealand a bit where the toys are cool enough and they are not worried anyone will sue them so they have flying foxes and other major swingy things).
It still amazes me that I can be in the US in the morning and Europe in the night time. And I am being reminded of all the litle cool things I had kinda forgotten about EUrope. Like the little shops and stores in every neighborhood and the kind of food they have at the stores and the trains everywhere and the cool style that the Europeans have and the cute little ladies that walk around all dressed up with felted hats and pearl earrings :)
Today we are going to Itzehoe to see Joerns home town, I like little towns so I think it will be fun!!I havent taken any pictures yet but I will get on that.