Shock

So this has been an extraordinary day. It started with what was meant to be a 90 minute drive from the Asian to the European side which turned on to over 4 hours and absolutely the ride from hell (no bats though) It started with a bus crashing into the side of a van just outside the hotel as I was leaving....well at least that closed the road so I could do the U turn I needed without any problems then crash after crash after crash. Stationary traffic and everyone expecting me to filter like all the other bikes but I see nothing and I mean nothing as dangerous as weaving between moving lines of traffic...all it needs is one vehicle to pick that moment to veer a little and it is all over. Then ambulances and police roaring along the hard shoulder and taxis trying to squeeze you out of the lane. Well I arrived...I had picked the hotel because it has an underground garage and is close to the metro....the station is just over the road....but the road is a multi level 6 way...I tried for half an hour to find a pedestrian way across and then gave up. Tomorrow I will get a taxi. So now I need a beer....the hotel is dry, the two hotels next door are both dry, the street restaurant are not just dry they also do not have zero sugar coke... everything her seems fuelled by sugar. I do end up with food the place being chosen as the only one that does have diet coke. I thought Turkey was secular....well it seems not here.Læs mere