Dancing on the Bus

It took about 45 mins to 1 hr to get to each place, but there was clearly no down time and napping during the bus ride. We danced in 2ft wide aisle to Turkish pop songs.

Cumalıkızık

The old village is known for its historical value-you can wander up and down the streets and see the architecture of the houses, which are still standing from Ottoman times. The streets can get a little crazy, because they only serve the purpose of going from one house to the other and don't really follow a "normal" pattern. There is even one "street" that is only about 80cm wide! The second thing this village is known for is gözleme-it's very thin dough, almost like a crepe, that is filled usually with spinach, potatoes, or cheese, and then cooked with a lot of butter. Rather tasty, if I do say so myself.

In Cumalıkızık we ate at a house/restaurant that was very cozy. There were two women rolling out the dough and filling it, and a man who cooked it over the fireplace.










Gözleme - the finished product

Trilye

After all of that gözleme, we decided to work some of it off by playing around in a place by the sea called Trilye.

Trilye Linner

We are having lunch/dinner, or linner as one might prefer to call it, at a restaurant in Trilye. We ate a few different kinds of fish, some of which I still don't know the name of. I did find out that we ate a Black Sea favorite-anchovies that are battered and fried to a crisp. You eat them like a french fry, bones, tail and all.











My partner, Ewa, and I usually are battling for "most disabled look" in pictures-I think that I'm starting to pull ahead in this next picture. The best part about it is that it isn't posed-that's 100% natural, baby!