So, we only had one night to stay somewhere in between our stay in Cappodocia on route to the Mediterranean. I booked a room online in Side before we left Canada for 25 Euros in a hotel that looked decent in the pictures but turned out to be a shit hole in person. I know. I know. Jen, you were right. I should have known better. 25 Euros, what was I expecting? Even though the hotel was a little piece of hell on earth, we met a guy named Ahmet while looking for directions. Ahmet was kind enough to navigate us to the hotel (he even joined us in the car with his Macau, "Chico") and later he gave us tea, delicious Turkish pasties and we shared pictures and stories of Turkey. He even offered to take us to his favourite breakfast joint the next morning before we hit the road.
The breakfast turned out to be one of the best breakfasts OF MY LIFE! Do you know how many breakfasts I have eaten? 29 years times 365 days is a lot of breakfast so please try and fathom the impressiveness of this feat. The food was traditional Turkish breakfast (or kahvalti) with pancakes (more like a crepe stuffed with herbs and goat cheese), olives, cucumbers, tomatoes, bread, honey, jam, sesame spread, cheeses and fried eggs with paprika. Lance and I ate so much food but it was so good we couldn't stop. It was all prepared by a woman and her daughter in a small outdoor restaurant in a tiny village and could not have been more delicious. We ended up staying way longer than we expected but the food, cay (tea) and company was so amazing it was hard to leave. Eventually we managed to stop eating and roll ourselves to the car to finish the drive to the coast which, of course, turned out to be beautiful. Oh!!! I almost forgot, Ahmet took us to the Manavgat Waterfall on our way back to Side. Very pretty :)
I had just met Ahmet about 5 minutes before this picture was taken. When he offered directions I had no idea his bird would be joining. I let them sit shot gun so as to not anger the bird.
Lance and Ahmet insisted I hold the bird and let it use me as a jungle gym. This is the look of true terror. For those of you who don't know, birds scare the bejesus out of me. Their feet are crazy reptilian dinosaur relics and they can FLY people!!! I don't trust them. And fish. I also hate fish.
Feigning a smile hoping Chico wont eat my ear like Hannibal Lecter. He turned out to be super gentle and well trained....but still....
Breakfast fit for gods. Amazing.
Ahmet treated us to ice cream after breakfast at the Manavgat Waterfall. Lance was being a smart ass with the ice cream man (see the smirk)...little did he know.....
ICE CREAM MAN ATTACKS!
Ladies, the one on the left is taken. The tanned one is single and looking for a hottie, a cougar or a sugar momma (Lance and I taught Ahmet these very tasteful terms)
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