Sounds like fun.
Are you travelling with someone, or going alone?

btw. Got back from Turkey earlier this week. Where were you girl!?

gonna be travelling with someone else, were meeting up in another town tomorrow then heading down from there. Its just a short side trip, only five days in the kurdish controlled area (the only safe part, everywhere else youd have to have a death wish to visit).

How was your trip? Ive been off in random places way off in east turkey for the past 2 weeks, its been great so far. ive got until september 10 in turkey and then off to syria.

The trip was great apart from a mix up with our rooms that took a couple of days to sort out.
I'd forgotten how friendly the Turks were. Not to mention their appalling style sense.
What's with the men's hairstyles all looking something like Al Pacino's in 'Scarface'...http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:E...228831.jpg&t=1

...only all spiked up as if they just arrived on a motorbike without a helmet?

As for their dress sense...if douche bag was a fashion style, they have it nailed!

oh god i know, my favorite is what people here call 'apaçi' style. basically the gelled up chicken mullet with tight jeans and either a badly translated english tshirt or an open button down shirt. like these guys :D

http://img.donanimhaber.com/upfiles/...5835D97BCE.jpg

:laughing:

Some of the hotel bar staff were sporting that very style.
Brow piercings seem to be the in thing too.

Have fun in Kurdland and Syria, jibber.

Unfortunately my trips are limited to more conventional/family friendly ventures these days.
Planning a short trip to Rome before the end of the year and then a family holiday in Florida for next summer. Not as cavalier, but bound to be loads of fun.

haha, yeah I think going to iraq is pretty much as off the beaten track as you can get, Im really excited that it worked out. after syria ill be going to lebanon, jordan, israel and egypt.

rome is great though, my parents took us to italy when we were kids (I think I was about 8) and my brother and I loved it. I just remember thinking all the ruins and ancient castles were just really awesome forts to play in :D

(and if your kids like cats, keep an eye on them; I scared the crap out of my parents by running after all the mangy stray cats and trying to pick them up and pet them)

i need the guy on the left's pants.