FENERBAHCE'DE KAVALTI

After all the wine we drank last night a good sleep in was needed to recharge. We had planned the night before to have a late breakfast at Fenerbahce. Fenerbahce is also located on the Asian side of Istanbul. Like the suburb Besiktas, Fenerbahce is also a well known soccer team in Turkey.

In the morning I met Seyda's room mate Aysegul who decided to join us for a late breakfast as well. We walked out of the apartment towards the main road. We caught a dolmus towards Fenerbahce from Uskudar.

We were only on the dolmus for a short period of time when the dolmus driver stopped half way on the edge of the road and told everyone on the dolmus to get off. People started getting the shits as he didn’t take us all the way to Fener.

It turns out that all the roads are cut off due to a meeting. There’s going to be an election in Turkey in a few weeks and they decided to block off the streets to have a massive meeting. For fucks sake this would have to happen the minute I move across to the Asian side.

It was a struggle trying to find a cab anywhere. The roads were jam packed with people waiting for cabs. Finally we pulled over a cab to take us to Fenerbahce.

We went a short distance before being dumped in some random street. We started our short walk towards the Marina side of Fenerbahce. It was a good walk as it gave me the opportunity to suss out the streets and houses here. The houses in Fenerbahce are nice but apparently very pricey. We slowly approached the water area where all the boats are docked.

We chose a café opposite the water for breakfast. We decided to go with a Kavalti Tabai (Breakfast Plate) at 3pm each LOL I love the breakfast plates here, you get tomato’s, cucumbers, olives, cheese, borek’s, bread etc

While we were waiting for our breakfast plate my friend Nihat came. I had organised with Nihat last night to meet us for breakfast in Fenerbahce. Those that remember from my blog I met Nihat in 2004 on my Ege Akdeniz Turkey tour. Nihat was the water boy on the bus. We had become good friends and kept in touch over the last few years.

Nihat sat down to have tea with us when some guy came wandering around looking lost. It turns out his Nihat’s friend Hakan and he was parking the car.

Introductions were made and had to be explained to Hakan 6 times for him to understand how we all know each other. It was a confusing story as I was the only one who knew Nihat previously. I met Aysegul (Seyda’s housemate) this morning and Seyda and I have known each other for years in Sydney. However Hakan didn't seem to understand this.

Left to Right: Nihat, Seyda, NV & Hakan

Once this was sorted we had to explain where Seyda comes from and trust me even I get confused when she starts naming places like a shopping list.

Nihat, Hakan and I left early as I had to catch a ferry across to the other side. I had promised bellboy I would go out with him tonight to Taksim. Nihat and Hakan kindly offered to give me a lift to the wharf.

Nihat - Waterboy

On our way to the wharf we got stuck in major traffic and then harassed by some woman selling roses. She insisted to Nihat to buy a bunch of roses. Hence I told him he should have brought some for his boyfriend Hakan and hence the gay jokes began.