On our way to k's sisters house we stopped at the bazaar in Izmir--it was nuts. I'm not used to bazaars at all so unfortunately I was too stunned to take many photos. We managed to get some dried pepper from urfa, near where k is from in the southeast, but we were unsuccessful in finding pestemels, which are thin Turkish towels. Actually we found but they were all icky plaids instead of pretty stripes. Mina and I were both fascinated by so much to look at. We got pretty thoroughly lost trying to get out and find our car--it took about 45 minutes of walking different ways--we had to stop and get coffee and tea--the photo is of the coffee/tea guy in his stall.
After the bazaar we drove to the forest service, it was a long way away--apparently Izmir's population is 6 million? A huge city, I had no idea--plus it's really spread out, no highrises as it's on a fault line.
K's friend is head of the forest service for the region but unfortunately was called out to survey a fire by helicopter and was quite late. We visited and left in the dark for emine's village. Mina drove as we were a little tired.
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