Summer in the City

  We had become confident travellers of the city by now, and after spending the previous
day searching for Georgia (amongst the other things I mentioned in the last post) By our 3rd
day we finally found her !!! We met at the ferry port for Princes Island and after gossiping
out the front of the ticket office for a while we decided to board a ferry.
  Rather than go to Princes Island, we got off the ferry early arriving in a homely and
rather European looking island, full of little fishermen and bicycle riding folk, with cute
little gardens around their beachy houses...
  We walked around for a while, splashed about, scavenged in the shells, and along our
path we strolled past some locals BBQing fish by the sea.  We didn't end up strolling past,
however, as they insisted we sit with them and taste their fish.  And sip their arak, and
finish off their salad, their halva, etc
  It was soooo delicious !!! Only one man spoke english, though the others used enough
expressions for some communication.
  The turkish/kurdish share the same values concerning hospitality as the arabs do, and, too,
eat pretty similar food with a pretty similar style.  though the weird thing is most turkish
 people don't relate themselves to arabs at all. They seem to look more to their differences
than similarities.  And there are many, as the turkish are obviously much more influenced by
Europe and Asia.

Our last day in istanbul
we wandered over to katakoy where its party town at night (though it was day time) with
georgia.  We got lost on our way to some tourist church and found ourselves at what seemed
like (never asked) a second hand book festival!! I bought a collection of old turkish photos
and postcards! hehe and a cheap little book (which!!! my couch surfing host just said yesterday
is his favourite book though hes never read it - he didnt even know I had it! I gave it
to him tout suite and he's so thankfukl - he then gave me some book in turkish...)
  Evening fell and the bars were all over-touristy and dear so we bought few bottles of white wine
a fresh fish/salad sandwich (they're made by the fishermans by the sea sooo cheaply- $2) and
watched the sun set at the peer, looking over the main city of istanbul's silhouette -
of sparkling mosques and churches sparkling over the beach city.
  at 10 pm david and I had to take our night bus to Cappadcia!! we were so late, talking

to an english speaker, but david ran ahead and we made it