I was expecting to be eating different food, but not such
consistently wonderful fare. Examples include Jellied Turkish Delight
covered in icing sugar, thicker Turkish Delight pistachios, soups of tripe,
sheep’s head or lentils, olives and salads of lettuce and red cabbage, cucumber
and tomatoes and incredible olive oil with every meal. Breakfast
today was olives, cheese, bread, tea, coffee, eggs, jams, tomatoes, cucumbers,
all served on a terrace overlooking the town.
I ran to a market this morning and bought fresh cherries and
oranges. They were probably picked yesterday. Where we have maple trees
along the roads, Turks have orange trees. While touring we went to a carpet
co-operative and watched them being woven. The process takes four to
twenty four months depending on whether silk, wool,mixture, carpet or kilim.
Gorgeous work. It will take about five weeks for my chosen one to
be delivered.
Roses and oleander are blooming everywhere. There
are lots of greenhouses and the tiniest plots outside of apartment buildings
given over to roses and veggies. Huge fields of onions and more peach
trees than in Niagara.
Dinner this evening was in the mountain village of
Sirince which is full of restaurants, tourist shops, beautiful
handmade lace, pottery, dream catchers and fruit wines. Everyone agreed
mulberry was the best. The setting was incredible. Wild olive trees
are all over the mountainsides with hotels and houses tucked in between pines
and olives. Sirince was a Greek village before the great migration of Turks
back to Turkey and Greeks back to Greece after the breakup of the
Ottoman empire.
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