A traveling Czech in a most unlikely place
Iva Hromkova Taking advantage of the long holiday in November I set up on a road trip to the east of Turkey. I was accompanied by one Czech boy but after reaching Trabzon we split up and the whole plan crashed. Left alone without a map I decided to go into the deeper east of Turkey’s east. My road trip supposed to be ten days journey to southeastern Turkey with a friend. A day before the holidays started I arrived in Eskisehir to pick him up. After two days there we took a night minibus to Samsun and continued along the Black Sea to Ordu, Unye and after reaching Trabzon on Monday we planned to go to the south of Turkey to Van, Mardin and Diyarbakir. But our plan changed. Leaving Trabzon Trabzon is one of the most beautiful cities near Black sea, they said, but I wasn’t impressed by the town at all. It was as crowded and fussy as Istanbul. I left the city center as soon as I could. One lady in abaya (whole black dresses) advised me to take the bus to the Trabzon intercity bus terminal I asked for a bus to Diyarbakir but an old Turk with good English kindly told me there is no bus going directly to that town but there is one bus leaving in ten minutes to Erzurum, which is on the way to south. I gave a man behind the counter at the bus station thirty lira and got on the bus without a ticket, I had received just a little post-it, where the number of my seat was written. I guess the man at the counter was too busy to write me a proper ticket. In five minutes I was sitting in a bus to Erzurum. I didn’t […]