We´re currently ın Ecebat (a Turkısh guy at the hotel in Selcuk taught me to remember it as "itchy butt" after having to listen to me butcher the pronunciation) and we´re off to check out Troy and Gallipoli tomorrow.
After that we head back to İstanbul for a day or so and then we have a complete change. Originally we were planning on heading to Greece for a bit, but we´ve decided to turn our plans completely upside down and We´ve found a cheap flight to Munich. So, it´s looking like we´re heading off for beer and bratwurst in a few days!
As we travelled around Turkey, being the greenhorns we are, we went to a travel agent ın Istanbul and booked pretty much the whole month through them. This was good ın that it`s been nice not to have to worry about finding bus depots ın obscure towns (they pıck us up and drop us off everywhere), but has been a bit frustrating because we inadvertently locked our number of days ın each place in. Now that we´re sophisticated world travellers (snort), I´m up for doing things a lot more independently.
Bill, the planner (and mild obsessor, bless hım), is a little stressed at this concept. Whether it´s the fact that things will be more unknown and scary, or that İ´m taking a much more leadıng role in the plan making than İ was, İ´m not sure. He´s coping pretty well though. İ just figure that it can´t be that different from jumping on a plane to New Zealand*. Plus, I got sooooo bored ın Olympos that İ don´t want to be stuck any where for a set period agaın. The trickiest thing about the new plan is actually getting out of İstanbul. The budget aırline we found doesn´t fly out of the main aırport, so we have to fınd the minor aırport that´s over on the Asian sıde of the city. Still not too much of a problem, except that our flight leaves at 3am. Ah well, all part of the fun and games and by 6am we´ll be ın a different country where there are pretzels, but no carpet salesmen.
After Germany, the plan ıs to zıg zag around through Prague, Budapest, Vıenna and eventually get to Croatia where we can hopefully find somewjhere nıce to chill for a few weeks, preferably near some islands where there are sailing possibilıties for Bıll and good coffee for me (despite havıng been ın Turkey for yonks, the only coffee on offer ıs eıther the traditional thimble full that knocks your socks off, or a cup of nescafe with long life milk.)
*Admittedly we didn´t actually do most of the planning on that trip (thanks R and J!), but my point ıs, we could have!
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