olives ahead!

Merhaba my friends! (turkish people always add ''my friend'' to every sentence)

Just a quick message to you to tell that everything is going well. On 8th of January we took a flight to Izmir to a party we were invited to (by the same people we met on new year's eve). We were supposed to take a bus but it was cancelled because of snow so that's why we had to take a plane.

We were hosted by amazing people in Izmir, they were the djs and the decorators of the psytrance party we were going to, we stayed 3 nights at their place. So funny times, so friendly people. We hope we will meet them again in some part of the world, hopefully in a place where we could host them to give them their hospitability back!

Yesterday our road was heading towards Fethiye, where ''Ali the strange farmer'' was waiting for us. We left Izmir very early and on our way there we stopped to a town called Pamukkale. It's famous for its white hill of salt and limestone, and it has hot water sources. So you actually have to take your shoes off before stepping on the hill, to protect its whiteness and to be able to walk through the hot water... I can tell you I never thought I would be walking barefoot in the middle of January. The weather is quite cold, maybe 5-10 degrees celsius. (A little bit warmer during the day here in Fethiye,  maybe 15).

The problem is that there is no heating systems inside the houses so we're kind of freezing our asses off and sleeping with 3 blankets... Today Ali our host made us visit Fethiye's greek ghost town (called Kayaköy. Kaya=ghost, koy=village). It used to be a village with a greek community but about 100 years ago there was some problems between Greece and Turkey and the countries ordered that all greeks of Turkey must come back to Greece and all turkish of Greece had to go back to Turkey. So this village was abandonned by the greeks, they had to leave in one week's time. So it was an amazing place to visit with all these abandonned houses and churches...

Tomorrow we will go to the farm for the first time (we are hosted in the city) so we will finally start some serious work... Olives are waiting for us! Wish me luck :))