Last summer of 2005, when my friend and I decided to go on a trip to Turkey, everybody warned us from the swindlers in Istanbul. We were advised not to talk to strangers, not to mention Kuwait as our homeland and not to go close to any of Istanbul’s crowded and dark places. In fact, we were 100% convinced of those advices that we agreed on taking them as rules. Ironically, we broke them on the second day that we arrived, and I still find that as a mystery.
We were walking in one of the nice streets in Istanbul when a little car accident occured. We turned to see what happened to find a tanned,tall and well-built man smiling at us. He said in an italian accent: “Ohh, don’t worry, it happens all the time here.” we instinctively smiled back and there was the beginning of our rules breaking adventure. We talked about the splendid panorama, topography and mixture of everything in the city. Later, he offered to give us a ride to the city’s main attraction; Takseem square. Unhesitantly, we jumped in his car and enjoyed the views while crossing Galata bridge to reach the modern part Istanbul, and leave the ancient one behind us. He took us right to the most touristic and crowded area in Istanbul, it was really fun to walk between the small shops and to have a delicious snack of fried breaded oysters. But that fun stopped and was replaced by anxiety when we suddenly found ourselves walking down stairs to a restaurant that seemed more like a CLUB. What followed, long story short: WE WERE RIPPED OFF ((The rest of the details are copyrighted, sorry:) ))
It was bizarre that, in the way to all that, neither I nor my friend has remembered any of the advices. We went back to the hotel stunned by the dysfunction of our that has led us to one of the best, most rewarding and most expensive experience in our live, and I mean it, it was really fun since it didn’t involve any gore!. We spent the whole next week enjoying the most extraordinarily amazing trip in our lives. Every thing we did was so fun, every meal we had was a gourment, and every place we visited seemed from another era.
