Safranbolu December 3 - 5, 2006 Sunday The 225 kilometer bus ride from Ankara to Safranbolu was uneventful, though we really enjoy the full service snack, drink, and perfume service. At a bathroom stop, we each got a little bite to eat, something like warm pita bread rolled with a little cheese and then grilled, a tasty treat that surprisingly filled us up. When we got to Safranbolu we didn’t really get to Safranbolu. Our bus deposited us on the outskirts of town near an impossibly ancient looking steel mill in Karabuk. From here we followed the rest of the passengers on the bus and boarded a shuttle that would take us, we hoped, to Safranbolu. The town of Safranbolu is made of three distinct sections and the shuttle dropped us in the bustling city center
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