Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Other Local Resorts & Areas => Kayakoy Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Sleuth on June 05, 2006, 14:36:14 PM
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My wife and I and two other english friends of ours were out enjoying a walk around the Kaya village last week, and during our walk along a country lane seemingly miles away from civilisation ( or so it seemed to us :-) ) from nowhere ,overtaking us, appeared a motor cyclist with two rear panniers on it .. he waved to us as he went by, and we waved back to him as he passed us . 50 yards on, he stopped.....we were curious as to why he stopped ? when we drew level with him, he got off his bike... went to one of his rear panniers...and unprompted by us proceeded to give each of us, wrapping them up in an idividual tissue, a delicous turkish type warm cornish pastie as best we could describe.... naturally we all said
" how much do we owe you ? " he couldnt speak english... but adamantly refused any money.... we insisted, but still he refused.... so we thanked him , shook his hand... he mounted his bike and rode off.
What a lovely gesture !!!! turkish hospitality at its best !!! lovely little experience
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Sleuth, from my experiences, that was just typical of Turkish hospitality. We have often been sitting on our veranda and Turkish people from across the road have brought us a plate of food as a gift. As always, Turkish home cooking is the most sublime of any that I have sampled during my earlier travels around the world and the hospitality is genuine.
Pete
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THAT is why we love Turkey 8)
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A lovely storey sleuth and thanks for posting it.
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They call him Sweeney, as in Sweeney Todd. I don't know why .
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we were waiting for the dolmus in fethiye one evening and turkish couple were strolling by we said merhaba and they offered us some sunflowers seeds they were eating,we chatted the best we could,they were so friendly.
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I am told that in Turkey if a neighbour brings you food on a dish, then it it is not considered courteous to return the dish empty, you should return it with your own offering. Then of course they reciprocate! We have so many dishes going backward and forward it is difficult to keep a track of them all. :)
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Tales like these never fail to warm my heart and remind me why we love this wonderful country
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i was in a garage the other day and the petrol pump attendant ask me if i wanted to buy a villa!!
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was he a grey old man called doug?stu you did well to turn him down,complete waste of money.lol
here comes the wallet story again.sleuth a man gave me back my lost wallet with 800 quid in it. (sorry i still cannot believe it)
marcus
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just as most everybody has said this is why we love the place.
Yes there are a minority who try to spoil the place,ie persons stealing/house theft and bitching.
But if you know these go on and blank them out the true turkey (places in the sun) comes through shinning.
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usually you will find that these sort of people that cheat etc come from other places in turkey and are only here (ie. hisaronu, calis fethiye)because the storys get around, you know what i mean, for what they can get from you, spoils it for the people actually brought up in these areas.
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Now who's generalising and slagging off those innocent people who do nothing of the kind! YOU are being offensive!
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What a shame that Cani is getting her head bitten off. Not surprising that new people are scared to post on here. I don't think that she mentioned thieves. When we had a spate of robberies The police told us that it was a gang that came in from Izmir for the season. It isn't unusual for any resort in the world to have these gangs that come in for the tourist season. She wasn't saying that everyone who doesn't live in Fethiye is a criminal. I am sure that Cani didn't mean to cause offence. Anne x
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I agree Anne, and it seems that Brownbear knows that all native Fethiye residents are rip off merchants! Tripe! There will always be an element of dishonesty wherever you are,if you think otherwise you are naive, but you just cannot generalise about one group of people. He is doing exactly what he is accusing Cani of.
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valentine/mercury
I posted what I posted on purpose. I was making a point by generalising like that, but I dont suppose anyone realised that, its called SARCASM (self inflicted)
To quote: "usually you will find that these sort of people that cheat etc come from other places in turkey and are only here (ie. hisaronu, calis fethiye)because the storys get around, you know what i mean, for what they can get from you, spoils it for the people actually brought up in these areas."
I dont think I was biting anyones head of, I think its a bit much that people go ahead and "bite my head off" when someone else can post the same sort of comment and I get accused of biting their head off, I mean I exactly aint some mad rock star to go around biting heads off things am I ? :)
When you start talking about "these kinds of people" it gets very scary , its the old "us and them" scenario you'll be wanting "them" locked up somewhere where they can't bother you next.
Just because someone has come to fethiye to work does not mean they are not here to earn an honest living and it doesn't either mean that they are saints either.
To spell it out there is bad in every section of society and every strata, I don't like generalisation and was taking the micky (out of my OWN post) when I put my previous post on.
If that isn't clear cut, I'm sorry but I can't spell it out any clearer, you either understand or don't.
BB
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Unfortunately BB you cannot read sarcasm into the written word, so posts are taken to mean what they read. However this is getting way off topic - which is a "NICE Turkey experience" not yet another about being ripped off. Can we get back on thread please, lets hear something positive about the place we are supposed to love!