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It would've been nice to stay for 2 days and visit the city.
The problem is that we had to cross Bulgaria on our way back and it was already November. You don't know how snow can fall without a moment's notice.
Saturday, November 3:
In Ankara was the best hotel so far. On the 8th floor, large room.
Superb!
Enerji Otel is the name. Higly recommend it if you need a place to stay in Ankara.
Motorcycle parking in front of the reception.
Left with a bad feeling knowing that we would never get such a good hotel, at such a good price per night.
We leave quickly from Ankara, heading towards Eskisehir.
Decided to stop there, Bursa being too far for the rideing style we got used to in Turkey.
The road is good, but boring:
We arrive at the hotel, a hotel that turns out to be a wreck. At least it was cheap.
Freezeing cold at night in the room. They tell me "automatic heat".
Cheap bastards.
We go to eat something and when we return to the room and go right to sleep.
We went to bed at 19 o'clock.
Sunday, November 4:
Such a bad hotel, we skip breakfast directly from the table. When we saw it, we got up and left.
Outside, about 2 degrees, maximum 3.
We warm up the motorcycle and go on the road. It would have been 8 in the morning ...
We did not even get out of the city as a traffic police stop us for "police control".
It was the 90km/h limit there and I was going atleast with 120. Me and another car in front.
The police man let me go after looking at the number plate, obviously.
What a cold morning...
I stoped for at least 4 times. A toilet, a coffee, tea... where I saw a small market or gas station, we stopped to warm up.
With 300km to Istanbul, through the town of Bursa, it was not a matter of getting there as fast as we could...
Absolutely beautiful road (including the police man encounter):
Nice wide curves, but too much traffic on lane one.
Drivers tend to change the lane instantly, they don't have the patience to stand behind heavy traffic.
Entrance to Cumalikizik: stone paved road, intense trafic by vehicles and pedestrians.
Food: Yoc! Just gozleme and "breakfast". At 13 o'clock when we arrived, they were selling us "breakfast".
It seems that the chickens don't grow there.
"No chicken, only meat!"
And the Chinese crap merchandise all over the place!
Cumalikizik was the birth place of the Ottoman Empire! What it was and what it became.
So much for the Ottoman glory village!
Total disappointment.
We leave quickly, no desire to take photos or film the area!
Even the Chinese in me has no desire to take pictures.
Difficult to "history" on an empty stomach.
We go ahead and stop at the first location where we managed to eat: a gas station with a "restaurant" in the back:
Only 100km to go until Istanbul!
The problem is that we had to cross Bulgaria on our way back and it was already November. You don't know how snow can fall without a moment's notice.
Saturday, November 3:
In Ankara was the best hotel so far. On the 8th floor, large room.
Superb!
Enerji Otel is the name. Higly recommend it if you need a place to stay in Ankara.
Motorcycle parking in front of the reception.
Left with a bad feeling knowing that we would never get such a good hotel, at such a good price per night.
We leave quickly from Ankara, heading towards Eskisehir.
Decided to stop there, Bursa being too far for the rideing style we got used to in Turkey.
The road is good, but boring:
We arrive at the hotel, a hotel that turns out to be a wreck. At least it was cheap.
Freezeing cold at night in the room. They tell me "automatic heat".
Cheap bastards.
We go to eat something and when we return to the room and go right to sleep.
We went to bed at 19 o'clock.
Sunday, November 4:
Such a bad hotel, we skip breakfast directly from the table. When we saw it, we got up and left.
Outside, about 2 degrees, maximum 3.
We warm up the motorcycle and go on the road. It would have been 8 in the morning ...
We did not even get out of the city as a traffic police stop us for "police control".
It was the 90km/h limit there and I was going atleast with 120. Me and another car in front.
The police man let me go after looking at the number plate, obviously.
What a cold morning...
I stoped for at least 4 times. A toilet, a coffee, tea... where I saw a small market or gas station, we stopped to warm up.
With 300km to Istanbul, through the town of Bursa, it was not a matter of getting there as fast as we could...
Absolutely beautiful road (including the police man encounter):
Nice wide curves, but too much traffic on lane one.
Drivers tend to change the lane instantly, they don't have the patience to stand behind heavy traffic.
Entrance to Cumalikizik: stone paved road, intense trafic by vehicles and pedestrians.
Food: Yoc! Just gozleme and "breakfast". At 13 o'clock when we arrived, they were selling us "breakfast".
It seems that the chickens don't grow there.
"No chicken, only meat!"
And the Chinese crap merchandise all over the place!
Cumalikizik was the birth place of the Ottoman Empire! What it was and what it became.
So much for the Ottoman glory village!
Total disappointment.
We leave quickly, no desire to take photos or film the area!
Even the Chinese in me has no desire to take pictures.
Difficult to "history" on an empty stomach.
We go ahead and stop at the first location where we managed to eat: a gas station with a "restaurant" in the back:
Only 100km to go until Istanbul!