Turkey the country is fantastic. Turkish keyboards, with their habit of randomly inserting backslashes when one hits the full point, making calling up web addresses a matter of pot luck and registering at such sites impossible, make me want to start defenestrating hardware... More details of the holiday in my BR thread when I finally catch up with the rest of the board - probably over the weekend. Although in the meantime, I have one other GR thread to start...
What was doing in the land of secular Muslims, Raki, good food, lots of free booze... OK, they have human rights problems, but frankly, so does every Western democracy. Count me as one hoping for the day when they're a full member of the EU. And the fact that euros are already as widely accepted as Turkish lira, along with the fact that shopowners immediately ask 'dollars, euro, lire?' when asked for a price shows where their interests lie...
What was really interesting was the trio of Iranian girls staying at the hotel... OK, I could understand them wearing the skimpiest bikinis - they couldn't get away with that at home - but I was a bit puzzled by the fact that all three had their eyebrows shaved and drawn in to look Vulcan. I wasn't sure if it was a Tehran fashion thing or I'd run in to the local branch of the TBBS and should've greeted them with a Vulcan salute...
About a thousand years ago a friend of mine met a beautiful Turkish exchange student at college. A couple years later he vacationed in Turkey and spent a week with her. Sadly, he didn't stay there and marry her, but came home, wasted another ten years single, then married a batshit crazy Jersey girl. Okay, that wasn't much of a story.
