The Free Porn

We decided to jump on a ferry and cross over to the Asia side of Istanbul. After a short ferry trip we managed to jump off the ferry. As soon as we walked towards the shops we got approached by a guy on the streets who wanted me to follow him if I wanted to buy CDs. Before even thinking we followed him. We travelled up 3 flights of stairs. As we were walking up I was thinking this guys going to mug us. What the hell was I thinking following him? Was I that keen on buying CDs off a guy I didn't even know.

We followed him up the stairs, meanwhile my friend has no idea what's happening. Apparently she thought we were walking into a brothel. We arrive to find a shop filled with CD/VCD/DVD's everywhere. Before we know it my hands are packed with goodies. The guy asked me to follow him into the back room. Supid me decides to follow again. He takes me into this back room filled with guys who are over excited sorting through CD's. Its then that I find out that this is the porn room. The guy pulls out a few porn CD and insists that theses are his gifts to me. I ended up getting free porn. I was in shock. I didn't know what to do. I didn't reject the porn. Who rejects porn. He kept saying he had the famous turkish singer gulben ergens porn video and Paris Hilton. I just wanted to get out of this room. The guys were freaking me out as it is.

Anyway after spending my entire money in my wallet we leave or well run out of the building as if it was on fire. We parade around trying to find the markets then realise that we need to recap on what the hell we just did. So we head into simit saray to have Turkish tea. After a tea recap we laugh our heads off at the stupid things I get us into.

We spend the rest of the day exploring the asian side where we try and find out what cockroach is. Its some kind of meat I think. I ask the guy standing outside the resturant whats in a cockroach and he replies saying nothing. I was like well what is it. He couldn't explain to us what the thing was. Just for the record when im saying cockroach its some kind of food that sounds like cockroach in Turkish. We just had no idea and kept saying cockroach for the hell of it.

Finally we find markets which wasn't really the markets. We buy random things - jewellwey, CD's and more scrafs. We manage to get lost holding a map.

For stress relief we call Christine. She actually picks up the phone for a change. We scream that were trapped in Asia because of her and hang up. I don't know if she understood what we were on about. I don't think I did.

Finally we decide to head back to the ferry but not before spotting a few gypsy's dancing in the middle of the street.