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our last day in turkey was interesting to say the least.  in every place you go you will find one or two strange people who can really ruin your day.  we found one such guy who introduced himself as reliable charlie to us and was trying to sell us some turkish tea.  we really wanted to see if he was giving us a good price so we were trying to shop around a bit more but he followed us everytime we tried to get away.  then he got not nice and we walked off and he did not follow.  we bought a lot of cool souvenirs and every once else we dealt with was great.  weird how the one guy can make you eager to leave a place like that even though there are probably a hundred other nice guys for that one guy.  hrmph

 

well also I must say our hotel in istanbul was amazing.  it is called the stone hotel. it wasn't really the rooms but the service and the friendliness of the staff that won me over.  i highly highly recommend it.  selim, i think he is like the manager, is absolutely hilarious!  we stayed there three nights total... the last night we found out they had a cafe and they opened it up and we were the only ones in there.  they jokingly called it the dungeon, but it was really pretty nice and they even gave us some free delicious candy from America too!  when we were leaving selim said "i am quitting, coming to america with you" or something like that haha.

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Lucas