We found a tea-shop in a village, on the yard of a mosque, we stayed here about one hour. We found ourselves among a dozen of 10-year-old children soon.

The hill started right at the end of the village, but it was much easier, then the one yesterday.

We stopped on the top of the hill in a village and we sat in the cool building of a pub to drink an ayran. We bought it for half lira.

We ate a sandwich with köfte in Bilecik. But we got lots of things just as a favour. Two Turkish sat next to our table, they rivalled probably who can be nicer to us. One of them bought one glass of mineral water for each of us, then the other Turkish put one litre cola to our table. In these cases we can’t do anything, but  saying „Tesekkür Ederim” (thank you) with a nice smile, and give them a leaflet  with the address of our homepage on it.

After Bilecik, we wheeled on an enormous slope in the beautiful landscape.

Drivers sound the horn for us, people wave to us a lot of time and it also happens sometimes that they slow down or even stop to take a photo of us.

In the evening, when we looked for accommodation, we hoped to find a place, which has a Balkan earth closet, but not flush toilet, because we can use it to have a shower, by hanging the Ortlieb Water Sack with the shower head on. We had Balkan earth closet, and also a great shower with cold water.  After then we slept like a top in the tent after the hard, but beautiful day.

The farewell was incredible.  We stayed at Ali almost one week and we liked each other a lot.

But the biggest farewell was from Dani. We travelled together more than 1 month and now he just left.

We made some pictures in front of Sultanahmet Camii and Hagia Sophia.

We got a little zoo from our bag: 1 crocodile, 2 bears, 1 rabbit and one yellow grasshopper. We got them from the family and friends and now they are travelling with us around the world.

We travelled with a modern ferry, just 75 minutes and we got to Valova. It was very serious to leave Europe behind us and get to Asia. Maybe we won’t see our continent for 2 years …

We stopped at a gas station to get water where one of them spoke a little bit in English: he offered us a place where we can camp, called Ilica,

I learned here the Merhaba-t, shame, just now, means „Have a nice day”.  If you learn the 3 most important sentences, like: „Merhaba” , „Tesekür Ederim”, and „Güle Güle”, you can win all Turkish people kindness.

We had a bath in the Izniki Lake.

After the bath we got the black soup, a 550 meter pass. It was very hard, in the hairpin bend was so sticky we could push just very hard

Near to the Yenisehir border we stopped to get some fresh water. After 1 minute we had a tea and some melon with the attendant and after 5 minutes we were familiar at the Facebook.

We passed Venisehir with the help of a police car. They took us into a park where every police man was waiting for us. They introduce us the captain and after few minutes they brought us a big tray of tea.