05 Visiting Pinar’s family
After exploring Instabul for a few days (as written in ‘04 Introducing Istanbul’) we met with Pinar, our Turkish friend at Haydarpasa station in Istanbul. We took the ferry from Emoninu and went to Kadikoy on the Asian shore of Istanbul along the Bosphorus. From there it’s about a ten minute walk to Haydarpasa station. After buying train tickets for our journey to Eskisehir the next day, we went for a walk along the Bosphorus, ate something and bought a Turkish SIM card for our phones. Later we took the bus with Pinar to her sisters house. But first Arne and me bought flowers for Pinar and for her family.
We had dinner at her house, and it was delicious. Her family is incredibly hospitable (as are practically all Turks) and we had a really great time. To all of us it was a very special day. One of Pinar’s sisters was going to predict our futures by looking in our Turkish kavhe cup after we had finished it. It’s called ‘Kavhe Fali’ and apparently, especially in Istanbul, it’s done for many tourists on the streets nowadays. But this was somewhat different. It had a more mystic feeling about it because in our case it wasn’t a tourist trap. In a nutshell, truthfully or not, all our futures were bright.
In my own case Pinar’s sister told me that before I went to Turkey there were some problems with something or someone but they got resolved right before I left for Turkey. She also told me I had three roads I could take, and all were good. It was even possible that all roads would come together at a certain time. Next she told me that I would travel to a lot of places, and visit many ancient temples et cetera. Finally she told me that by the end of these six months I will be feeling sad for leaving Turkey. The strange thing is that there was no way she could really know about all these things. Real magic or not, it was very fun and interesting to be part of this. It made our day even more special then we could have ever imagined. I would like to thank Pinar and her family (Pinar, tell them I said hi. Especially you little nephew). Tesekur iderim, dostum. For everything.
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