Before we left Gorome we decided to walk in to town. After a few minutes the heavens opened and it poured down drenching us. A car stopped and three Turkish men told us to get in, so this was either a kidnap or friendlyness!! So, we got in and they drove us in to town. Turkish people are just genuinly nice. Having got in to town we went to a cafe where we met up with some of the others and drank Turkish tea while we dried out.
The next morning we set off East for a bush camp and on the way stopped for lunch in an out of the way town called Zara. As we stopped we were surrounded by children and locals who clearly thought we were hilarious. We moved on and found somewhere to stop next to a reservir surrounded by mountains, a great site. Clearly no toilets here so people wandering off with small shovels.
Up early and off East again stopping for lunch in Tirebulu whose population also seemed never to have seen a weterner before. A cafe owner gave us all free tea. We drove on to our campsite near Trabzon. More a restaurant than a camp site but it was ok. While bbqing ourchicken in the dark a man came over and just gave us a large bottle of Georgian wine.
We left and drove to the monastery of Sumela, a three mile walk uphill to the monastery stuck to the side of a cliff, quite fantastic but very hot.
Popped into town where a grocer tried to charge me four pounds each for some melons, I declined and bought a bottle of wine.
Our next bush camp was very interesting as the mountains are so steep we struggled to find somewhere to stop. Eventually we backed up a track to a small area of dumped stonhaving cl
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