Bus drivers appear to be kings of the road at least around the larger cities. They take a line in the road and stay there regardless of what others try to do. The buses are the first to force their way into your lane too. They are always intimidating you too with their horns. The driver we had driving us back to Sile was driving fast. I was sitting behind him up front. The red line on the tach was 4000 RPM. He shifted many times at the broken red line just before that. We came over a hill at about 100KPH (60+ MPH). There is construction on this road with several one lane areas on this 4 lane divided road. A water or maybe fuel truck was sitting at the bottom waiting to make a left turn. With the brakes fully applied, the bus was still out of luck by about 3-4 feet. At the last moment, the driver turned to the right to avoid contact and missed the truck. The car on the right of the bus had to adjust his position quickly too as the driver only cared about saving the bus. No contact to any vehicles. I had been videotaping a few minutes before. Sorry I didn't have it recorded. It would have been great footage.
We arrived back at the university bus stop at Sile on the Black Sea a few minutes after 10 P.M. There is a petrol station a very short distance away. We purchased six 1.5 litre bottles of drinking water there to take with us the next day. I drank one almost completely before I went to bed.
The two young men who took care of the pizza restaurant/hotel asked in Turkish if we cared for any food. We said no as we had eaten in Istanbul after leaving Hagia Sophia. We were in our room only a moment when they came to be paid for the room. I had paid Attila the owner the agreed price for the first night when we arrived. They wanted double that now because there were two of us in the room. We said "no way". Since neither side could understand what the other was saying, they brought their laptop computer and used a word translator. The translation to English was exactly as we said. The amount was per night for the room not per person. (There was no breakfast included, no towels supplied and no air conditioning.) I then typed in English saying what they were saying to us was just as we said. They typed again and said they were still right in so many words. We paid the original agreed price for the second night as before. Robert shook hands with one or both of them. They still shut off the water to the "bath" for the night so I couldn't take a shower. There was enough water still flowing so I could wash and rinse off from the sink in the bath. I used my plastic cup to wet my hair for washing it with shampoo rinsing it to. The boys played recorded music a little louder than the night before, but that didn't bother us as we were tired and fell asleep quickly.
The next morning we packed up to leave. The two of them showed up about 9:30 AM and asked if we wanted breakfast (which we would have to pay for as before). We said no. While packing I could see on the roof that the main valve for the holding tank that supplies pressure for the water system was shut off. We asked others later about our pricing experience, and found that it isn't unusual in Turkey to pay the room rate for each person occupying the room. So who was right and who was wrong? The room certainly wasn't worth the asking price for each person occupying the room to have to pay individually. So another experience on the road.
Match The Caption With The Photo:
-Ocean View.
-First Door On The Right.
-A Room At The Inn.
-What Do They Really Sell Here?
-A Big One And It Flies Too!!
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