Turkish police - arkadash

Although the weather was cloudy and rainy, we still decided to leave the home of Laurence and Axel, because sitting on the back side of the van all day long, was not the way we imagined our trip.

So we gave ourselves into the hands of Turkey and Turkish people.

It was still Ramadan period. It is a period of appreciating the food and water, that we have been given, by not putting any piece of food or any drop of water into the body from the sunrise tıll the sunset. So it is very common that soon after it has turned dark outside, people start eating and inviting anybody who is near to join.

We joined 3 Turkish men in the petrol station. The bread and chicken tasted so good, especially after having our own "sort of Ramadan day".

After one truck put us off near the city of Gerede, we found ourselves in the cold windy Turkish mountain area night, with no idea of where we gonna sleep tonight. We started to walk until a police car stopped next to us and asked what are we doing in the night in the middle of nowhere.

Thanks to Branko's sufficient Turkish language, we managed to explain them: "tourists, autostop, no money, problem, rain, cold, no idea where to sleep, maybe tent by the road, Turkey beautiful country...." they took us into their car and went patrolling with us, at the same time trying to figure out what to do with us.

So eventually they came up with the plan to put me into some kind of "woman's only" place and Branko could have been sleeping in the police station. Probably because we did not seam to be very satisfied with the plan of being separated, they took us both to the police station to meet the big boss in order to find further solutions.

The whole station was so excited. After a friendly chat with the Commissar and the rest of the police gang, they asked if it would be ok for us if they will put us into hotel for that night.

We said: "para yok" (no money)
They said: "problem yok" (no problem)

So, we were taken to the hotel by the secret police.
One of them went first alone in the hotel, had a 5 min chat with the receptionist and after that we were given the keys of our double room and wished a nice trip to Ankara the next day.