Nice food last night; met a lot of people; mostly younger - difficult to remember names. George (older / Yorkshire); Hannah (19, Winchester), friendly bunch though.
Met at dinner some Turkish dude who climbs 8a (French)! Will try and get to a wall tonight - also heard some talk of bouldering maybe. Here (Istanbul) for a few days, thence Antalya. It's 8:30 am Turkish time - we're two hours ahead of UK here. Waiting for breakfast.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Monday, June 2, 2008
Day 1 Istanbul
Luton to Istanbul. Luggage a precise 32.2 kg; I'm allowed 32 kg - couldn't weigh it at home - cheap (Swiss) scales exploded. Forgot I needed hard currency (rather than Turkish) - ten GBP for (Turkish) visa - used US $ instead.
15:00 UK time. Sat on some bus - taxi quoted 80 Lyra; I would have paid - but then the driver seemed not that bothered - so got on a bus. Some dude reading a book on parallel processing - in English - so asked him how to get to the hostel. He drew several diagrams. This bus is good. Thence metro, some sort of (Swiss) funicular, a tram. Do not know the actual [Turkish] time as yet. Have forgotten hand cream, and need a small (man) bag.
Just left Levant metro station [downtown Istanbul]. Treating big red bag like a wheelie bag, though it isn't.
15:00 UK time. Sat on some bus - taxi quoted 80 Lyra; I would have paid - but then the driver seemed not that bothered - so got on a bus. Some dude reading a book on parallel processing - in English - so asked him how to get to the hostel. He drew several diagrams. This bus is good. Thence metro, some sort of (Swiss) funicular, a tram. Do not know the actual [Turkish] time as yet. Have forgotten hand cream, and need a small (man) bag.
Just left Levant metro station [downtown Istanbul]. Treating big red bag like a wheelie bag, though it isn't.
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