Antalya

A doldrums day, because I had to wait until 2030 to catch the overnight bus to Göreme. There are usually one or two days like this in every trip. And no pictures for this day, so I'll finish this post as fast as possible. After breakfast, the owner's wife didn't understand that I wanted to leave my backpack with them until evening, so I had to wait for the owner to come back from shopping. Not that I had urgent things to do anyway.


I thought of visiting the Antalya Museum, but the idea didn't attract me. Toy Story 2 was showing at the Kaleiçi but I'd seen it already and it would probably be dubbed in Turkish. I could visit a bookstore, but I was saving that for the end of the trip to avoid lugging weight around. I wandered into the tourist office after lunch to see if there were any half day trips or similar. No luck. I was familiar with old Antalya, I knew the narrow neighbourhood streets well. I had even spotted a Chinese restaurant and wondered how authentic they were.


Somehow I got through the day and had dinner at the pension to give the owners some income before going to the otogar. The bus left as dusk fell. Turkey is east of its proper meridian.