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Published: October 13th 2010
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and some resort near the pier “Shhh, quite we all can hear you,” a fellow traveler says as she sticks her head out the door. It is 6 am and I’m on Skype. Me being quite is like expecting peace in the middle east.
Our pension is small, and the walls are paper thin. I heard everything last night from a fight at 2 pm across the street, to the cats fight to the people snoring down the hall. And oh, let’s not forget about the dog that barked most of the night as well.
I suppose sleeping is optional on vacation. Just some night on vacation would be nice. Maybe tonight??
And if you are feeling bad for me; don’t read any more. Keep that feeling.
This was our “vacation from our vacation day.”
The day started with a cruise in the Mediterranean, and swim. Yeap, I swam in the salty waters of the Mediterranean sea. I was trying to have fun with my fellow travelers by saying stuff like, “hey, I saw a really big fish behindyou with fins & big teeth.” I don’t think most people appreciate my humor. I do. I suppose the sea turtles don’t have
out boat
for the day fins. And yes, plenty of sea turtles.
And I end my day with a Turkish bath. Yeap, I now expect my Honorary Turkish National Citizens card in the mail anytime soon since I believe I’ve done all things Turkish.
How the bath works:
You arrive with your closest girlfriends or in my case, six fellow travelers. Men only goes in the men’s bath, women women’s. The two never mix.
The first think you do is strip in a little box. You wrap a paper thin towel around you (and yes, you are naked) and go to the sauna. After that, you are scrubbed raw with thin sand paper. Layers of skin are removed. After than, you are rinsed and put back onto a marble slab and you are washed with foam. Lots of foam. It’s hard not to slip and slide around. My biggest worry was slipping off the marble slab and landing on marble.
Okay, after that you are rinsed again (you don’t actually do the rinsing, the ladies do.) Keep in mind, you are with 6 of your best friends and the ladies are taking turns. The goal with your friends is to
hey look
it's me! gossip and drink and eat. You bring your own food and whatever your favorite beverage is. It was a great time to talk about our other fellow travelers and who said and did what; but I suppose that is another blog.
After all that, us ladies get a mud facial, then oiled up (and remember oil wresting is the national sport) and then, we are rinsed again, sit in the sauna a bit more. And oh, you get a Turkish tea break in between all this activity. And so it goes.
I am relaxed and cleaned. Super clean. If I don’t sleep tonight I am in big trouble.
Let the dog bark.
Prost.
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