Mark and I have been in Turkey now for a few days. After a bit of a long flight through London we arrived in the capital late in the evening and got right into right away by trying to figure out how to take a bus from the airport rather than getting a taxi the whole (expensive) way. And then after a group of old men discussed how best to get us to our hotel a taxi took us off and we ended up staying in a great old Ottoman mansion. Ankara was enjoyable and we finished it off with a crazy drive out of the city in our rental car. Mark rose to the challenge and drove like a Turk to navigate those streets. We are now in the center of the country, in Cappadocia.
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