Another early morning start, tram to otogar (bus station) and then a 4 hour drive to the lake district in the west-centre of Turkey. The landscape changes from flat, dry plateau to mountains (some with snow even in the 30 degree heat), lots of green and lakes. Nice seeing water again. We are staying on a small island joined by a causeway to the main town. The lake is big and blue and beautiful. Our pension is overlooking it and we sit on the 3rd storey balcony writing this in the quiet. Sigh......
We are just about alone in our pension - in fact tourist numbers are seriously down all over Turkey (have we said this before?).
Egidir is a very peaceful resting place as we pass the halfway point in our every-decreasing holiday time. Wah! Egidir is wedding central - this is the week before Ramazan and every man and his dog and woman are tying the knot. This involves cavalcades of cars honking horns and parading along the narrow streets. About 4 we saw on Sat, easily double that on Sun. And what's with the bizarre ritual of hanging a small towel out the front window? Hmmm...
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