Fly me to the food

We took a one hour flight from Cappadocia to Istanbul earlier today and I had to start rubbing my eyes and pinching myself when I saw a food cart full of both food and booze, this country rocks! In North America you can take a 5+ hour flight from Vancouver to Montreal and consider yourself lucky if you get water and a stale cookie.

This is the best Ramadan ever!

We were wandering around Istanbul this evening looking for some cheap beer as everything at the hotel is like 12 lira or something stupid; this is no easy feat given that it is Ramadan and all of the streets are poorly lit at best. We finally found a little grocer that had tons of beer, loads of selection and rock bottom prices. I had Turkish lira on me so I bought the beer and I guess being 'scantily' clad during Ramadan means free stuff cause the shop keeper kept smiling at me and giving me free gum, good deal! (Scantily clad meant shorts and a spaghetti strap top as compared to the veiled women outside of the shop, obviously not in the market for beer!)