Favorite Things Turkey
- Galata Bridge
- Street food - simit, corn (boiled, grilled, or popped), pickles, mussels. The mussels.
- The Ottomans (Ottomen?)
- Seeing the Hagia Sophia only to decide I need to go back
- Sitting in between Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque during prayer call
- Çay
- A country of dichotomies: modern & rugged, Islamic & secular, beautiful & dirty, pristine waters & overdeveloped tourist towns, Europe & Asia
- Meat.
- Turkish socialization: backgammon, meyhane culture on the Nevizade, tea
- The views
- A sense of adventure while never feeling too far away
- Baklava, lokum, helva
- Leb-i Derya at the Richmond
- You can find everything fairly cheap, but pay a little more and you get a lot more
- Turkish breakfast
- Swimming in the Mediterranean
- Having delicious plums grown by my bus-friend's mother in Fethiye
- Tomatoes, eggplant, cucumber
- Yogurt, Ayran, cheese
- Fun letters like ç and ü