Kara Deniz

After arriving to Samsun and looking for the place where we were supposed to meet our CS friend, we ended up spending our evening with a mechanist Hakki, with Hakki's girl-friend, with his girl-friend's nephew and his girl-friend's nephew's girl-friend.

Hakki would have brought stars from the sky for us if he could.






























Next day we decided to hitch-hike along the Black Sea coast and see, what kind of adventure the road will bring us this time...
It brought us Murat with his truck full of milk.
















Subtropical Black Sea cost in Turkey is famous for its rainy weather. It is also, thanks to its climatic conditions, tea and hazelnuts kingdom . 70 % of hazelnut world production comes from Northern Turkey.









































All day in Murat's cabin - breathing cigarette smoke, listening to traditional music and watching rain drops falling into front window. Heavy clouds were sliding down the green hills and we were thinking - where we gonna sleep tonight.

We reached Rize at 2 o'clock in the morning, and after delicious late dinner / early breakfast in fish restaurant, Murat let both of us to sleep inside the truck cabin. Allahu akbar !

Guys from the warehouse, where Murat was supposed to get new tons of milk, only laughed in the morning about two travelers waking up in the truck. They offered us a cup of tea. That's what all turkish people do, so that you have to drink around 10 cups of tea a day. (Sometimes it gets on the stomach !) So each time Branko has a chance to ask in turkish: "Is it Black Sea region tea?" And each time turkish pople can answere proudly with the big smile "YES...."
But in Rize - in the Capital of Tea - they offered us Lipton....strange world !