Early Wednesday mornings

The alarm clock rang at 4:15 a.m., and Rémar and I were perfectly in time for our airplane. It is somehow surprising how busy it already is on the streets round 5:00 a.m. When we arrived in Antalya by aeroplane, we got to meet most of the people and the tourguide we were going on excursions with. Not very surprising, but we immensely decreased the average age. The tourguide was speaking Dutch, but with a lot of breaks in between his words. And he was repeating himself all the time. The guide was saying exactly the same but then in another order. So the guide was telling everything double.
During the transfer we passed a place with ugly hotels: all replica’s from for example the Gremlin, White House, Titanic and Amsterdam Central. But this wasn’t so bad anymore when we got to enjoy the sights of the pretty Turkish hills covered with goats or clouds.
We arrived round 4:00 p.m. Since Finike was the nearest town, but about an hour walk, we decided to eat at the hotel. It was an all-you-can-eat dinner, for only12,50. My eyes got really really big, especially by seeing the desserts. Turkish veggies can be really weird of taste. There’s this really weird, common taste-mixture of sour, spicy and juicy. Something like a pickle-olive-tomato. There was also the very taste Pide bread, and nice goat’s cheese. Let’s say we had a great opportunity to energise.
After dinner, we went out to the beach where we bumped into a tramp-dog. She got the name ‘Drop’ (VOETNOOT1). A very sweet dog, following us the whole time, giving paws and running after trucks. Later more..
When we came back into the hotel, Rémar thought me how to play chess.


'footnut': Drop comes from Raindrop, which refers to Rain, my most beloved cat who behaved exactly the same as this dog. But who unfortunately died. If reincarnation exists, then Rain has been rainincarnated in Drop.