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Other Local Resorts & Areas => Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum => Topic started by: usedbustickets on February 28, 2016, 10:14:41 AM

Title: Price of a cup of coffee - another moan up brought to u by UBT
Post by: usedbustickets on February 28, 2016, 10:14:41 AM
OK to begin with I need you all to understand that I do not normally frequent shopping centres (deffo not malls anyway), but sometimes needs must where the devil drives as I needed a new range extender ... so that explains why I was there as I do not want people to think that I have lost, or even softened, my edge  ;)

So yesterday whilst in the Erasmus centre I thought I'd have a nice cup of coffee in the coffee shop, rather than my usual cay in the cheap shops!!  So I chose here

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-73Pvb96EkOM/VtLDumWTW8I/AAAAAAAAR5g/JFSg6Gc1Vls/s640-Ic42/IMG_20160227140606.jpg)

I ordered me a cup of cinno with a slug of vanilla sugar juice.  And to my surprise they served me this

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bz3wCIDyDLA/VtLDmHCRGaI/AAAAAAAAR5c/dngUGqnZTz8/s640-Ic42/IMG_20160227140547.jpg)

Now the coffee was good, but let us say there was not a lot of it to be had from a cup and saucer that must have seen previous service in a dolls house.  To give you some idea of size of the cup I helpfully placed my front door key next to the cup and saucer so you can judge how tiny it was.  So one I had taken to two sips of the coffee all that was left was the frothy foam.  Now I was a very big drinker of good coffee, particularly when working in London - I knew all the best italian sandwich and coffee bars - but never came across anything this small, unless they was serving an expresso.

And for this very ... very .. limited pleasure they charged me 8.5tl.  Needless to say I will not be going again anytime soon.
Title: Re: Price of a cup of coffee - another moan up brought to u by UBT
Post by: KKOB on February 28, 2016, 10:20:45 AM
Seeing the key on the table I thought you'd taken your moped to a swinger's meeting in the hope of getting something a bit more upmarket.
Title: Re: Price of a cup of coffee - another moan up brought to u by UBT
Post by: Scunner on February 28, 2016, 10:28:02 AM
Best you get back to the 3TL cup of instant made with UHT milk and Bim coffee powder UBT
Title: Re: Price of a cup of coffee - another moan up brought to u by UBT
Post by: usedbustickets on February 28, 2016, 10:47:36 AM
Best you get back to the 3TL cup of instant made with UHT milk and Bim coffee powder UBT
Or better still the belesh 'all you can drink' Cay offer at the Gar!!
Title: Re: Price of a cup of coffee - another moan up brought to u by UBT
Post by: Scunner on February 28, 2016, 10:58:23 AM
Is UHT a relative of yours?
Title: Re: Price of a cup of coffee - another moan up brought to u by UBT
Post by: Colwyn on February 28, 2016, 10:59:36 AM
Ridiculous! That cup is way too big. This is the appropriate size - as demonstrated by my jolly little coffee can.


(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Coffee%20Cup1_zpshhkvr6xc.jpg)
Title: Re: Price of a cup of coffee - another moan up brought to u by UBT
Post by: KKOB on February 28, 2016, 11:08:50 AM
Well, it just goes to show how this forum has deteriorated when we have 2 old men comparing the size of their cups on a Sunday morning.
Title: Re: Price of a cup of coffee - another moan up brought to u by UBT
Post by: Scunner on February 28, 2016, 11:25:44 AM
I was thinking how it was good to get back to proper debate  :)
Title: Re: Price of a cup of coffee - another moan up brought to u by UBT
Post by: kevin3 on February 28, 2016, 12:50:21 PM

  Many years ago on our first visit to Turkey we paid our first visit to the Tuesday Market, and our first purchase was two cays,

  as we wanted to try something Turkish. We sat down at the first eating establishment on the right as you enter from the

  main road. The grinning lady bought us our cays and charged us 20 TL. (we were green). A lovely English lady sitting nearby

 came over and told us we had been ripped off, called the grinning lady back, gave her a right mouthful in Turkish , which stopped

  the lady from grinning, and we were refunded 17 TL. Lesson learned, and the former grinning lady still gives me a dirty look as I

  walk past grinning and shaking my head at their invitation to dine.  And they think they are clever.
Title: Re: Price of a cup of coffee - another moan up brought to u by UBT
Post by: davybill on February 29, 2016, 08:12:33 AM
Did you get your chocolate spoon with it USB.
Title: Re: Price of a cup of coffee - another moan up brought to u by UBT
Post by: usedbustickets on February 29, 2016, 10:27:59 AM
Did you get your chocolate spoon with it USB.
I did indeed, but it's inclusion did not compensate for the absence of coffee to drink. 
Title: Re: Price of a cup of coffee - another moan up brought to u by UBT
Post by: JohnF on February 29, 2016, 10:30:18 AM
You using Google to store the images you're posting?

JF
Title: Re: Price of a cup of coffee - another moan up brought to u by UBT
Post by: Colwyn on February 29, 2016, 11:26:28 AM
Ha, my cup is better than his cup - which has disappeared!
Title: Re: Price of a cup of coffee - another moan up brought to u by UBT
Post by: kevin3 on February 29, 2016, 12:29:49 PM


   Typical men, boasting about who's got the biggest thingy. !!   
Title: Re: Price of a cup of coffee - another moan up brought to u by UBT
Post by: foggiestmeldrum on February 29, 2016, 14:20:04 PM
Hi, what happened to the images ?and why the Google question ? Does google somehow stop the images being displayed ?
Title: Re: Price of a cup of coffee - another moan up brought to u by UBT
Post by: usedbustickets on February 29, 2016, 15:56:29 PM
You using Google to store the images you're posting?

JF
John

The two recent posts of images I made that could be seen by some and not by others was from Google Photos.  I suspect that people could see it if they had a Google account.  Which is why I posted these - and indeed reposted the two from Google Photos -  where I have always posted images I use on CBF which is Picasa web page, but of course that is now the full Google product so if people are still not seeing the images or they have gone missing, as reported here then I will need to find somewhere else to post them and future images....any suggestions?  Naturally I will be looking for the free places, ideally one that does not present soft p0rn or Russian wives!!!
Title: Re: Price of a cup of coffee - another moan up brought to u by UBT
Post by: JohnF on February 29, 2016, 16:18:29 PM
Its an odd one as I could see your images when you first posted them, but now cannot - and I am currently logged into Google with this browser.  Is there an expiration date set maybe?

I use either the stock forum "postimages" function or a direct link to an image hosted on one of my domains.  Truth be told, the stock function can be problematic depending on which browser you're using hence my direct linking strategy.

It's probably time to look at an alternative image upload function, one that works across all browser, but as always time is the issue.  I'll put it in my forum "to do" list  :)

JF
Title: Re: Price of a cup of coffee - another moan up brought to u by UBT
Post by: Colwyn on February 29, 2016, 16:34:32 PM
That may explain why I can sometimes use postimage and sometimes not. Thought I was being dense. Of, course, I might be that as well.