TIME TO CELEBRATE
We had our first birthday on tour today - yippee!
Theresa has finally turned 21 and celebrated in style with boxes of Baclava and lashings of Ginger Beer! We are now in remote eastern Turkey and our world becomes more conservative by the day. Alcohol is still sold in a few shops but cannot be consumed in public - even a hotel bar will make you go back to your room to drink the beer it has just served you!
T and Aman are our lunch stop gurus. While Miles and Ben head off to the next night's camp, T and A set up lunch stop, buy supplies and keep the convoy thoroughly fed and watered.
After the rest day there were a few sore behinds as we rolled out of Amasya. The town is a gem and definitely worth a visit if you are ever in the area.
We headed along the river again and although today was a massive 157km, the temperatures have dropped and the going was good, although roads and a nasty little climb at the end dampened a few spirits. The good news though is that we have said goodbye to the main highway and so the enormous trucks. There are still the odd one but they are no longer charging passed at 100 miles an hour.
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Posted August 05, 2008 by Paul Wilson
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