It all begun when I was working at a market for my summer job, which was a truly delightful experience. I'd fool around with the customers, or act all uptight and polite, go on a goods checking spree, doing it as fast as I could without saying a word, etc., depending on my preference at the time. Basically, job was easy as pie and people were forced to interact with me. What's not to like?
One day the security figure remarked how going to Turkey is better than to a local sea area from all aspects. I needed some actual holiday time thus once I was free from any burden, I acquired a ticket.
Day 1 13/08/2016
The departure was due at an early time in the morning, so I decided that I can foot to the airport as it wasn't likely I'd sleep either way. Dragging the luggage turned out to be an inconvenience, however, and I got hungry out of the blue, thus, I hailed a cab after eating a pizza. Driver was very talkative and the trip was a delight.
In the airport I checked into SC and goofed around a bit, also chugged an energy drink which I packed to reduce the potential sleepiness. It was an alright call since I couldn't bring it to the plane (I think?), however it made me a bit nauseated once the plane begun to take off. The inconvenience was solved by me falling asleep and sleeping through half of the flight with my earphones on.
Soon after I woke up the flight attendants were walking around with the menus and later with food carts. Being a clever bloke I conducted that there's no need to get any overpriced edibles as I'll stuff my tummy in the hotel shortly and I ate pizza not so long ago, so I settled with a cup of green tea. My cleverness backfired once it became known that my hotel is one of the farthest.
Arrived just in time for the meal but once I was up in my room, I decided to unpack and snoop around instead as the hunger was temporarily gone. Went to the beach with a towel and trousers, bargained down the price for the bench and the umbrella in a charted territory for my whole stay. Was hesitant to pay at first as I thought that flopping into the sea and then heading back to hotel, which is like 2 minutes away from it, was enough. Luckily, laying cozily after swimming around turned out to be pleasant and my inner Jew was fed for getting it cheaper than it would've cost if I payed at the hotel and even at the seaside had I not brought up the other dealer and his offer.
Back in the hotel I read up on the activity suggestions and made a list of things to acquire, which was taken care off before the evening meal. Ate like a hog and then had desserts. Pretty much stuffed the plate with what was offered without much combining thoughts. Tour guide was running late so I ate more. Got sleepy.
Once the trips were determined and tickets were given we footed to the nearest cash booth to commence the payment. Sleepiness vanished so I went for a walk by the sea to pick up my towel. Managed to slip on the rocky surface and flop on my right side, keeping the phone out of the water, wetting my bum and hitting my arm. Zippo that was in the right bum pocket was soaking wet, so I decided to ask some Turks that were drinking by their mopeds near the beach to give me some light. One of them talked in German and another suggested me to go for the ride while sitting behind him on his bike. It was dismissed as I had no urge to partake in drunk driving and the whole offer was redundant. Later it turned out he was actually hitting on me as it all escalated to an offer of "drink. drive. sex."
He even gestured to make it clear. "No no" I said lazily, somewhat belittling, then stood there for a while drying my clothes and went back to the hotel, leaving the old man rejected. Pfft, a beer and a ride won't get me into bed...
It was getting late but I decided to climb up a nearby mountain to reach the Kale castle and see the region from above. Walked there by the sea, enjoying the water. The road uphill was long and circly and the scenery became the same after some of the circles, so I begun getting fed up. Failing was not an option; I kept walking regardless and failed much harder in the end. The 'castle' was but a remains of it that were even fenced from the people and the top place presented no view whatsoever. Having no desire to get into trouble abroad I prohibited myself from sneaking in and climbing up. Still, I did some sightseeing and it wasn't as bad as I might've made it sound.
During my journey to and from I've seen many male couples chilling in the beach and various corners of the mountain, and almost no females, aside of a pair drinking further away of a male couple and some more that were with a male being. Funniest sight was six guys standing in pairs and chatting whilst making eye contact all the time. Made me think that Jim's behavior we find peculiar might just be the way of the Turk.
Managed to catch some wifi and spent some time in SC when I was back. Went to sleep around 5 am.
So far Turkey was a delight. Beautiful place and despite Alanya is a tourist resort, it looks rather unique in a way that it's more Turkish than regular European area, or so it seems. The hotel is truly decent tho the shit wifi is truly annoying.
