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On being lost
I am in Turkey this week. (Where else can you go where the secularists are protesting in the streets! Awesome.) Aside from seeing things, I like to travel for the challenge.
Getting to that interesting restaurant reviewed in the New York Times you have to find the ferry station, purchase the right ticket, get off at the right stop, find the restaurant on the streets with no names (ah there's the bull statue! must be somewhere to the east!) and overall get lost many times. It's a bit like running a marathon but the honeyed pumpkin at the finish line tastes sweeter for all the running.
I don't like being lost, but I like having been lost.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on July 24, 2007 at 07:15 AM in Food and Drink, Travels | Permalink
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I don't know how much time you have in Turkey, but if you are able to get to Pamukkale, there isn't a place like it in the world (that I know of). At the top of the park is a great public swimming area.
Antalya in southern Turkey is quite pretty.
Posted by: fustercluck at Jul 23, 2007 6:19:25 PM
You know, some might find deeper meaning the title of your post and your parenthetical comment.
Posted by: Bill at Jul 23, 2007 7:03:16 PM
"I don't like being lost, but I like having been lost."
I feel that way more generally with traveling. There is no better feeling than the month before and after traveling.
Posted by: thehova at Jul 23, 2007 9:06:40 PM
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Posted by: Jon at Jul 23, 2007 10:44:27 PM
boooo comment solicitation.
Posted by: Ryan at Jul 23, 2007 10:55:11 PM
Someone pointed me here --i.e. I was tricked :)
I don't like being lost, but I like having been lost.
I am pleased to see at least one 'alien' enjoying our future pasttime :P which I am sure we'll feel increasingly more intensively as we realize we are the bridge between Asia and Europe and stand to suffer the impending continental drift.
Posted by: Chronic Anonymous at Jul 24, 2007 1:42:14 AM
When I was living in Istanbul, I have been in this restaurant for many times and as a Turkish man, I can also strongly advise you to have a great dinner in there.
Posted by: Cenk Yurtsever at Jul 24, 2007 4:16:30 AM
Hi Alex! l' m Selim Tekin from İstanbul, Turkey. l' ve been living in this city since l was born, luckly l read your entry "On being lost". If you are still in Turkey (l mean in Istanbul), l can help you as much as l can, and it will make me feel so pleasured. l could not reach your mail adress, that' s why l' m writing you a long comment. l' m giving you my mails: selimtekin64@hotmail.com and selimtekin64@gmail.com
Have a nice holiday and travel in Turkey. Take care...
Posted by: selim at Jul 24, 2007 5:07:01 AM
I hope you found the resturant (Ciya). It is one of the best places I've eaten in. It is well worth the trip.
Posted by: Justin Pearson at Jul 24, 2007 6:37:24 AM
After being lost, I would want more than vegetables.
Posted by: Robert Speirs at Jul 24, 2007 9:01:27 AM
wow this was alex? this was easily his most tyler-esque post on here that I have read.
Posted by: at Jul 24, 2007 9:59:22 AM
Yeah, suspiciously Tyler-esque. Could Alex be another Tyrone?
Posted by: Alex Tabarrok at Jul 24, 2007 10:34:07 AM
Well, as a secularist (in the separate of church/temple/synagogue/mosque and state sense), I'm not much of a fan of those Turkish secularist protestors. Considering they are protesting a party keen on giving more freedom, like the freedom to cover a large part of the head with a piece of cloth.
Posted by: Rajan R at Jul 25, 2007 6:51:11 AM
wow this was alex? this was easily his most tyler-esque post on here that I have read.
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