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Vanessa's travel guide to turkey
1: how to get a Turkish stalker
Whilst pondering around the airport trying to work out how to get to my cheap cheap hostel I was confronted by one of the airport staff. After a long conversation of getting to know you random chit chat he insisted on me meeting up with him. Tried and not quick to think I got his number incase I meet some cool people in the hostel to be my posse if I decided to go.. But alas when I got his number he to me to call it.. This the stalking begins. I never met up with this guy and ignored every call that was a foreign number and the calls continued even after my friend picked up and claimed the phone to be his. 

2: staying in an dodgy place
It took the taxi driver forever to work out where the hostel was and fair enough, the hostel was hidden under a giant building with no signage! So after hiking 3 sets of practically vertical stairs I was settled into my room. There was only one other person in my room and he was from Croatia and didn't speak English that well.. But from what I understood was that he was married to a woman who loved shopping, he only eats fruit and vegetable and drinks only water and he only uses soap to wash his hands and washes his body with water! He was nice but a little odd and he looked scary so I held my valuables all night while I tried to sleep!

3: how to become the coupled tourists
The next day I moved hostels and joined an awesome hostel which had 3 or 4 cats! The owners were very friendly and would encourage conversation so in no time I was off exploring with a guy from Portland in America. We explored the Markets and got a little lost here and there.. But managed to find our way back all the time. Whilst exploring we overheard this tourist couple arguing and bickering to each other about the other ones directions! so we pretended we were a married couple called Gerald and darlene and hilariously navigated our way through the crazy markets! The day was packed full of chai teas, green tea with apple, Turkish delights, chaotic crowds and too many cheap items being thrown in your face! Ah Gerald "quit playing with your rocks!!"

4: how to loose your purse
Let's be honest when it says 3 lira tequila shots you should just say no.. Or have one.. Not 4 and vodka!! Long story short I left it behind and all is well now at the time my new "husband" friend was stressing and I could be no more calmer.. It's not my passport nor is it my life! 

5: going on a dodgy tour
I arrive at my hotel for my tour and it's just older people.. Me and the tour guide are the only people under 25 so.. The tour begins and I swear Australian Gerald and darlene if they were single they were on this tour! One man kept leaving his passport everywhere and wasn't very travel savvy. Three lovely ladies however made my trip more enjoyable inviting me to dinner and to join them in events. The tour itself was shocking.. The tour guide ended up hooking up with one of the brazillians on the tour and moved to the back of the bus to make out with him during the tour.. But I became tour guide after that. 

6: what have we learnt
Just take a friend to turkey stay in hostels get lost in the city find your way back and say you have no phone!! Turkey is beautiful and the people stop of 5 minutes and different hours of the day whilst music plays and they pray.
Oh and I saw a turkey in turkey!!