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It was strange to read your comment as I did almost the same thing. I was there in the fall/winter of 1993. I hitched around a bit as well, mostly on tractors b
by cgh 12y ago
It was strange to read your comment as I did almost the same thing. I was there in the fall/winter of 1993. I hitched around a bit as well, mostly on tractors because of the whole windows rolled up while smoking thing.
I remember the motto of the PTT (the Turkish telephone monopoly) was "A phone in every village!" They were nowhere near reaching that goal when I visited and it was normal to feel pretty cut off if you went to villages even slightly off the beaten track. It's an experience that's tougher to get nowadays, maybe even impossible in anything short of total wilderness.
- jusben1369 12y agoI lived there for about a year. During that year I traveled to Rome to see a girl. She said "so the expression 'smoke like a Turk' is true!" Apparently it was an Italian expression and I was living proof of it. (I quit cold 'turkey' a couple of years later)