06 The journey to Eskisehir
The next day we went back to Haydarpasa trainstation. We got their early so we had some time to walk around some more, take some photos and eat something along the Bosphorus river. Jelmer and I took some photo’s near the trains as well. In Turkey you can walk on the tracks all you want. Everything is different here. Meanwhile Arne got harassed by some shoe polishers while Jelmer and I were taking photo’s. Apparently they were really annoying. I understood this because the same thing happened to me in Bulgaria. Arne was all by himself with our luggage and had to be careful.
Our train departed from Haydarpasa at 13:30 and arrived around 19:30 (45 minutes late). Taking the train from Istanbul to Eskisehir shows you some nice views of Turkey. The landscapes, villages and cities you pass never look alike which makes the train ride very interesting to say the least. To kill some more time I learned some new Turkish words and sentences and an elderly Turkish couple started helping me pronouncing some of the words for a while. Later Erdeniz got in the train on Izmit station. Erdeniz is Arne’s future flat mate and he offered us to show us around in Eskisehir and the Anadolu University the next day.
When we arrived at 19:30 Pinar, Fiko and some of their friends picked us up at Eskisehir train station. The first night we were going to stay at Fiko’s house. That night we went to Glow, a nice bar with live music after having dinner in the city and getting to know Fiko and Pinar’s friends a little better. Once again the hospitality of Turkish people came in to place.
The next day we met again with Erdeniz who showed us the campus of the Anadolu University (it really is a city all by itself) and helped us finding the guesthouse where we were allowed to stay for free for the next 5 nights.
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