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Friday was a rather long day. We didn't leave the office until about 7pm. We had gotten a recommendation from a local person on a good Turkish place to go. We get back to the hotel and meet in my room (Yea Free Mini-Bar!!) for some wine/beer before we go. We are just trying to save the company money since the cheapest glass of wine at a restaurant is approximately 12 USD.
So it's my idea to "suck it up" and try the Raki. (I hadn't heard fantastic things about it). Raki is the unofficial national drink of Turkey. I think it tastes like black licorice (which FYI, I don't like). Traditionally it is mixed with water and turns a cloudy white color. It doesn't make it taste any better. I would put it far above China's national drink Maotai, which makes me want to get sick from the smell, but worse than grappa.
While we were drinking, we were lucky enough to get our 5 minute daily CNN clip on the Olympics. We do have an English sports channel, but it is showing rugby matches in Europe. It is definitely hard to not be able to watch it.
After about an hour, we went to Sahan (http://www.sahan.com), which is close to the Marriott, for dinner. They bring out pita bread and you can select appetizers that are brought around on a cart. There was only one person there that could speak English, so we went on how things looked. We got a very good eggplant dish, a chicken dish, some other tomato dip, and something that was very spicy so I didn't go near it. (How is that for a good description).
Charles has an allergy to nuts, so when the tomato dish was selected, Charles asked the waiter (the one that spoke English) if it had nuts in it. The waiter said yes and Charles explained why he couldn't have it. Therefore, the waiter just scooped the nuts to one side of the dish and put the part without the nuts on Charles' plate. Classic.
That's all for now, we have a big day ahead of us tomorrow going to view all the major sites!!
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