Cappadocia Day Two

We left at 9am to see Maziköy, one of Cappadocia’s underground cities. It takes a lot more imagination to picture ancient civilizations there; everything is much more crude than Roman ruins. It’s probably about as easily understood as Troy; the most recognizable features are ventilation shafts and the altar in the room that served as a church. After leaving the underground city, we were invited to a wedding party in town. The children, most of whom were in school uniforms, kept asking us “photo? photo?” - we later found they were hoping to get money for letting us take their pictures. The girls asked us if we had any lipstick, and several small ones just said “money money?” We had lunch at a restaurant on some campgrounds, and decided it was very good. This was the first time we’d had halvah on the dessert table, and as it was our guide’s first time visiting that restaurant he said he’d definitely tell all his friends and bring future tour groups there. I was tired after lunch, so I went back to the hotel while my girlfriend went on the carpet factory tour. I wrote some postcards and watched a French movie (the subtitles were also in French, and using them I was able to keep track of the plot), then decided I wanted to take a nap. I took the key off the keyring, and wrote our last names on an envelope. I dropped the key into the envelope and put it just outside the door so my girlfriend could get in without having to wake me. It turned out she had bought a large wool-on-cotton carpet for a room on the bottom floor of our house. Unfortunately that’s where the cats like to eat whatever they catch and bring in, so we’ll have to devise a way to keep them out of that room. Before dinner I took a picture of the view from our window. About 85-90% of the buildings we’ve seen in Turkey have red tiled roofs. I’ve never seen anything like this - no matter where you look, there are the same red tiles, in varying conditions matching the state of the house beneath.