On being lost

by on July 24, 2007 at 7:15 am in Food and Drink, Travels | Permalink

I am in Turkey this week.  (Where else can you go where the secularists are protesting in the streets!  Awesome.)  Aside from seeing things, I like to travel for the challenge.

Getting to that interesting restaurant reviewed in the New York Times you have to find the ferry station, purchase the right ticket, get off at the right stop, find the restaurant on the streets with no names (ah there’s the bull statue! must be somewhere to the east!) and overall get lost many times.  It’s a bit like running a marathon but the honeyed pumpkin at the finish line tastes sweeter for all the running.

I don’t like being lost, but I like having been lost.

fustercluck July 23, 2007 at 6:19 pm

I don’t know how much time you have in Turkey, but if you are able to get to Pamukkale, there isn’t a place like it in the world (that I know of). At the top of the park is a great public swimming area.

Antalya in southern Turkey is quite pretty.

thehova July 23, 2007 at 9:06 pm

“I don’t like being lost, but I like having been lost.”

I feel that way more generally with traveling. There is no better feeling than the month before and after traveling.

Ryan July 23, 2007 at 10:55 pm

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Cenk Yurtsever July 24, 2007 at 4:16 am

When I was living in Istanbul, I have been in this restaurant for many times and as a Turkish man, I can also strongly advise you to have a great dinner in there.

Justin Pearson July 24, 2007 at 6:37 am

I hope you found the resturant (Ciya). It is one of the best places I’ve eaten in. It is well worth the trip.

Anonymous July 24, 2007 at 9:59 am

wow this was alex? this was easily his most tyler-esque post on here that I have read.

Rajan R July 25, 2007 at 6:51 am

Well, as a secularist (in the separate of church/temple/synagogue/mosque and state sense), I’m not much of a fan of those Turkish secularist protestors. Considering they are protesting a party keen on giving more freedom, like the freedom to cover a large part of the head with a piece of cloth.

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