Mechanics from Heaven!

We drove on away from our kind friends offer to stay in the downstairs cave in search as usual for a place where we could upload and update the website… as we drove on Cappadocia was starting to really show off it was clearly massive area and we came across a view point which was like something from lord of the rings for these incredible caves splattered around and dotted in-between the lights of touristy buildings and normal homes… It doesn’t maybe sound as beautiful as it looked….

Here we where shown around a beautiful hotel in the disguise as hotel writer guides looking for a discount… our guide was not the friendliest however it was one of the best meals he had had for some time… the whole Istanbul kebab thing had been starting to wear very thin. In fact for such a cosmopolitan city it was a surprise how little good variation of food we managed to find…. But back to our awesome meal as we walked down to get our bags we chickened out of the return journey up the hill and snuck in to a lower hotel and a friendly owner. This guy had converted the room he was born in to a bedroom for his hotel he also spent some lovely time showing us around the next day and doing a brief interview giving us some great info on the area… we did find out later that it was a sales technique to sell some rugs from his shop and when it became clear we weren’t too interested the tour stopped hehehehe…. Time for bed.

We went to check that morning if we could fly in the hot air balloon tour we had booked as we had been up since six that morning to see over Cappadocia.. the mist said it was not going to happen so we where refunded and headed off this time our destination was now a two or three day drive to Iran! Headed away from the glory of Cappadocia and on towards colder climates of Eastern Turkey. Now we where Central Turkey and our window was proving to be very annoying as a certain someone (mention no names but remember there are only two of us) was ruining the atmosphere. We put it down to the enforced kebab diet and to not have window access at will was proving a little stifling for me! So we decided to get it fixed, we had heard local mechanics where amazing! This news had come from the great guys in footloose4x4.com the experts who put our cars together.

So at the next town we went hunting for mechanics to solve our niggles with the car….. We headed down a oily looking high street where cars had been piled on top of the buildings to save space and slowly rust out of sight as mechanics tinkered away keeping the very expensive priced old cars of turkey running… we wandered over to one of the many yards and asked if they could help with our small list. Firstly our headlight was down and considering some of the late driving we had experienced and some of the many many near misses we had had with truck we wanted that fixed first…. In no time at all we had two cups of chai and someone of the team of seven all around ,had his face in the bonnet the light out and fixed! Cheap fixed and done!!!! Not like London. So our confidence brew and we then started to think what could we do next? The window… so a few mimes and sound effects later we where led to our next man to fix the window… the locals described this guy as the Professor! All of them seemed in awe of this intriguing gent whom again in no time had us drinking Turkish tea and watching as the door came apart the offending instrument removed a new one rebuilt from bits and bobs and then replaced 20mins later a fully working window!!! OK whats next the radio! It had been hanging out ever since the crash and Jonny had been given a gift from George Lamb a Ipod with a world of new music for our long days in the car… so a bit more mime and to our next shop stereo land where again it happened….

We left that place in awe and if insurance had allowed it we in hind sight would surly have preferred our car in those guys hands and surly would have been on the road a week after the incident may even still had two cars! Drove on late that day to get some distance and to enjoy the new world of music… looked at a few stops but ended up in a big seventies monstrosity one third closer to iran!

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