Işılğan Dere

So when you are in a region with a high military presence, and a soldier waves that you should come over, you come over.
A few questions… and then… “Chai?”. Alice says yes: it is raining and it sounds a bit different. With Chai, we are served a late and freshly cooked breakfast of chili eggs, cheese, bread, tomato, olive and honey. They are friendly and good natured. They get the giggles when one of them demonstrates to Alain how to eat honey without cutlery. They teach Alice the turkish version of thumbs up.

We google-translate-chat. Why is such a high military presence needed, why are we in Turkey (as well as the age/married etc queries). They are clearly impressed at our different approach to retirement. They say there are terrorists around with machine guns and tell us to take care - it seems that things are more tense because of the situation with Israel.

Then its back into the rain and a few more miles on the road.Read more