We took a bad navigational "short-cut", (I was navigating,) that brought us through a bunch of remote farming villages and along a completely quiet ridge with land falling away on both sides. Lots of goats periodically in the road. I am amazed at how many people live in villages throughout Turkey, I thought it was just in the southeast where K is from. These villages are somewhat more modern and the climate is friendlier with lush greenery and trees everywhere but conditions are still very much on a peasant level. we stopped and got some honey and gave another older auntie a ride to the next town. She cackled at Mina who eyed her from a safe distance with fascination.
We had lunch in Mugla and it continues to get chillier and chillier. We had local specialties for the area including some kind of savory wheat porridge that even K never had, I forgot to take photos until after we had eaten most of it as everything was too delicious.
We continued on, planning to spend 2 nights in sirince, a village in the mountains that was straight out of another time with ottoman era houses and donkeys and wine making. Sirince has also been all mucked up as a big tourist trap; we still would have stayed as it was too beautiful except the houses were very cold and uninsulated with crazy floor space-heaters. With a very mobile Mina this seemed possibly disastrous and definitely freezing, even if she didn't manage to burn herself. We skipped it and found a friendly pansiyon in Selcuk that is also cold but the heat is up high at least. Our Internet has been very spotty the last few days--k tried to help fix the wifi tonight as we are supposed to have it, hopefully soon so we can skype with mina's American grandmother again.
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