YA BA DA BA DOO! Christmas in a Cappadocia Cave
The air is crisp but the cave is warm.
We have finally slowed down in Turkey. In Istanbul most of our time was spent filling and refilling in documents for our Iranian visas but now we have come to a stand still in the magical area of Turkey known as Cappadocia. You can see the whole place in 3 days on 3 different tours: the red tour, the blue tour, and the green tour, but Marc and Heidi are on a different type of tour...the non-tour!
Christmas Day was spent trying to find a phone that would work and shopping in the streets of Nevesher. Marc got some fresh honey from the back of a car, a roasted chicken from the butcher's window, some warm bread, and some fresh produce from a tiny backstreet. We enjoyed our Chistmas dinner feast.
When the sun shone on Boxing Day, we knew that it was the right time to explore some of the surrounding hills. Nicolas and Judith (our new French friends) joined us for a dolmus ride to Ucusar and after a deranged camel and a silver shop we headed up the slope. Like children we climbed up and up into the tiny rooms that were carved out hundereds of years ago to make this castle. We warmed up in a Turkish pizza shop and walked back to Gorome (after another stop for Nicolas in the silver shop) under the full moon.
We have finally slowed down in Turkey. In Istanbul most of our time was spent filling and refilling in documents for our Iranian visas but now we have come to a stand still in the magical area of Turkey known as Cappadocia. You can see the whole place in 3 days on 3 different tours: the red tour, the blue tour, and the green tour, but Marc and Heidi are on a different type of tour...the non-tour!
Christmas Day was spent trying to find a phone that would work and shopping in the streets of Nevesher. Marc got some fresh honey from the back of a car, a roasted chicken from the butcher's window, some warm bread, and some fresh produce from a tiny backstreet. We enjoyed our Chistmas dinner feast.
When the sun shone on Boxing Day, we knew that it was the right time to explore some of the surrounding hills. Nicolas and Judith (our new French friends) joined us for a dolmus ride to Ucusar and after a deranged camel and a silver shop we headed up the slope. Like children we climbed up and up into the tiny rooms that were carved out hundereds of years ago to make this castle. We warmed up in a Turkish pizza shop and walked back to Gorome (after another stop for Nicolas in the silver shop) under the full moon.
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