We start our day in Mardin looking for coffee, and we do succeed of course, this is Turkiye after all. We begin by walking around the old town and wandering down side streets. We even pulled into a nice shop and bought some wine, there was also a cute kitten that had no choice but to climb everyone. So after a few photos and a bottle of wine in hand we headed out to continue to Diyarbikar.
About halfway we pull off the main road and go find an empty field to stop in and let Pina out for a run, and so we can also relax, the weather is perfect, the sun is shining, the chairs are out and we have a cold beer and sunflower seeds.
Our peace is interrupted shortly after by a flock of goats, quite normal here, and of course the sheapard comes up for a chat, god bless google translate, with a few extra hand signals tosse din for good measure we are asked if we would like some fresh milk. Now I am not one to say no, and Asareh is very excited, so we spend the next 5 minutes chasing a goat down. And like magic, a cup of milk is produced. It doesn’t get any fresher than this that’s for sure. It had a bit of a sweet flavour to it and was still warm. Back at the car we also gave Pina a share, high fat, so his fur is soffttttt.
Arriving in town, we are in for a struggle our hotel is in old town, and those roads are tight.. I actually end up having to reverse back out of a street as it gets so tight we just cant get through. A few more struggles later and I find parking. At the hotel Pina is let free to check the room out and we head for dinner, winner.
I also find a shoe repair shop right next to the hotel and get my shoes fixed, new soles, perfect, I walk home in socks. Lol
We spend the full next day on foot checking out old town and hitting up the shops. Which luckily included a stop to buy new sticks for the mangal to hold meat. The loudest area of town I have ever been in, with all the metal working going on. No ear plugs to be seen let alone safety glasses.
Our night ends with discovering what we though was an abandoned kitten crying on a fence, we sit and think.. and think some more. Will Pina be okay with this? Anyways.. Pina was most definitely not okay with this, so feeling guilty we take the kitten back to the fence, now we’re having a moral issue as I feel terrible leaving it. Luckily this moral dilemma takes a solid 10 minutes. Then finally the mom arrived, all is okay in the world again, and the kitten got a free meal out of it. Tomorrow we go visit the aliens…
