Batman

Our destination today was the city named "Batman". We passed by the "10-Eyes-Bridge", an ancient stone bridge across River Tigris where we had our breakfast. The rest of the route led through a relatively flat and dry landscape. Again, we received quite some invitations for tea. We turned down most of them, as we didn't want to cycle too long in the afternoon heat. One car stopped and insisted we take one of their watermelons. They are definitely no cyclists because watermelons are very heavy and way too big to pack. We still took one and ate it a little later.
We passed many cotton fields and sheep and cow herds. There's also many turkeys and gooses running around. The people are rather poor and kids usually take care of the animals rather than being at school.
We arrived in Batman early afternoon where our host Mustafa welcomed us. He's one of Fırat's friends and treats us like some special guests even though we can only communicate via Google Translate. He made sure we got enough to eat and took us to a kebab place first. Afterwards, we went to a spice shop where we drank coffee and tried almost all of their sweets and dried fruit before buying some dried apricots in the end. Although we were already full, he also took us to an icecream place. At the end of the night, we had tea and chips at his apartment and watched football: Turkey against Serbia.Read more