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Subject: TURKEY Hello from Vancouver, Canada! Thanks to those subscribers who have sent us postings the last few days on visiting Turkey. I visited this wonderful country on business for the first time this past year and have fallen in love! There are innumerable travel destinations around the world (as readers of this list can attest to) but one of the often overlooked ones is Turkey. I was in the capital of Ankara for a week in the spring and found the government officials, private businessmen, shopkeepers and people on the street to be invariably friendly, courteous, and unfailingly helpful. At one point, I found that I had left a notebook with critically invaluable information in it in one of the taxis I had taken. Now, understand that Ankara is a busy city of over three million, probably three million taxis, I don't speak or write Turkish, and my notebook had no identification in it whatsoever. I mentioned my loss to the front desk at my hotel (Pullman Etap Mola, by the way); they phoned some central taxi registry and my notebook was returned within an hour! Now, if that sort of thing happens in many major cities, I'd be very very suprised. Most delightful of all was my totally unexpected discovery of the city of Antalya and the Mediterranean coast of Turkey! Seventy degrees in March, brilliant skies, five-star hotel on cliffs overlooking the sea (Talya Otel) at less than US$65 single with breakfast AND dolphins splashing in the sea outside my bedroom window! My first experience of being somewhere that they keep a pitcher of freshly squeezed orange juice on the table in restaurants the way we North Americans keep ice water at hand. A beautiful part of the world, as yet relatively undiscovered. I invite more comments about this wonerful country. I would be happy to read of your experiences and, especially, invite any Turkish users of the internet to drop me a line personally so that I can continue to learn more about this exciting country. Serefinize! Dallas Cooper Vancouver, Canada dallas.cooper@deepcove.com
Date: 28 Mar 1995 14:54:32 -0600 From: Burak EpirNewsgroups: soc.culture.turkish