No.184439
On the turkish side, the border was lined with demolished and abandoned concrete buildings, shit looked like gaza and we felt we are not in europe anymore. Later the scenery changed to pine trees along the road, felt like a wolf or a bear could show up any time but it wasn't bad.
At this point we were schizodriving for many hours and wanted to stop in Istanbul to get some money exchanged and sleep in a hotel. This was a huge mistake in hindsight but we didn't know any better so we pushed ahead. We arrived to turkey at dawn but since it's a different timezone, we arrived to istanbul at around 8-10 which is rush hour, of course.
Istanbul is endless and cramped. We also got the feeling we are not in europe since all the residential areas are made out of an endless sea of highrises (15+ stories easy), it looked like those chinese ghost towns (I've never been to china, of course) and each residential area had its own mosque. I just said fuck it and we tried to leave the place but as I already noted, it is endless. The ring road takes you through a series of hills, and you think the next one will be the last, but it is not. More residential areas, sea of cars.
At this point we realized we might be slightly fucked, since free wifi is not something that turkish gas stations have. We stopped at a burger king but that didn't have it either. We are not in europe anymore so data costs an arm and a leg
No.184440
>reached serbia not long after which is an unsaveable shithole
dem spicy serb bitches
No.184441
After leaving istanbul we tried to find a hotel but google maps took us to a gypsy camp (thank you google, I bet you did this because we say the n-word online). Shit looked like a nightmare so we left asap. We could see some nice mountains in the background. Such contrast between (sub)human poverty and natural beauty.
We kept rolling on the highway towards ankara and reached the mountainous area of bolu.
I had openstreetmaps downloaded on my phone which saved us in the end, we found a hotel near the highway without using any data (fuck you google, by the way)
This hotel ended up being one of the most expensive ones on the entire journey but it saved our asses after two whole days of schizodriving. This place had a huge mall as well so finally we could relax a little and we finally got some internet access too. Buddy tried pide which is something like a turkish version of pizza, shaped like a boat, but as a based meat eater I had to note most of the toppings involved less or no meat compared to european pizzae.
These mountains would put the Alps to shame, they were really nice
We could build a hyperborean meat eater raw milk mountain community here, just a side note.
The highways were insane. Huge inclines put a lot of stress on trucks heading towards ankara, many struggling to reach the top, they were doing sub-50 (kmh) on a 140 rated highway, thick black smoke bellowing from vehicles so ancient, they are only a distant memory in europe. In austria they avoid constructing taxing inclines like these and rather drill more tunnels or move more soil, because the climbing trucks kept blocking and slowing the car traffic as well
No.184442
After this hotel nonsense we woke up feeling refreshed and continued our journey towards ankara.
There was a lot more weird shit on the highway. Some trucks were just doing 50 (kmh). Not on an incline, not fully loaded, not even old trucks. They just did it, because god knows why they did it. We've seen a guy on a scooter on the highway. We've seen a guy cycling on the highway. You do this in europe, the cops take you behind the barn and tear up your license and then shoot you. But this was Turkey, so nobody bat an eye. It's not like there was no police, on the contrary, we've seen a huge amounts of police cars, undercover or marked, roaming the roads, standing next to the road. They had the lights on, always, the utility of that on an undercover unmarked car is of course questionable, but it still happened. The police was well equipped, new and fast cars of any make in good condition.
They had built permanent checkpoints along the highway with bulletproof shields, police cars and even APCs. We got a lot of stares from the guys selecting the cars to inspect because of the foreign plates (in off season) and because the car we went with was tiny. Turks like big cars and two visibly europeans in a tiny car from a faraway land was an anomaly to them.
As we left the Bolu area, the Alps-style mountains with snow and pine trees slowly changed into dry mountains with small shrubs.
No.184444
A few hours later, we reached Ankara. If you are an European, this truly feels like the middle east for you. (If you are a turk, this might offend you, which I understand, I would be mad too if someone compared hungary to bulgaria)
The roads are wide, the weather is dry, the sun is shining, no cloud in sight. The environment is dusty.
Still, great city, such an improvement compared to Istanbul. We finally felt relaxed here, the traffic wasn't that bad either and we were more or less used to turkish driving. Exchanged some money and found a hotel in the center of the city which was actually really cheap. After checking in, we met up with turkposter who took us to the best kebab place in ankara which was great. In europe, no matter if you see kebab or gyros on the signs, you will get some gyroslike streetfood shit that is unremarkable and sloppy, usually made from inferior meat. The real turkish kebab experience is more like a whole set of meals that includes soup (a bastardized version of this is usually what it poured on european gyros as sauce), unlimited access to fries, mushrooms and vegetables, the main dish is lamb wrapped into some kind of dough. The meal set ends with ice cream, sweets and tea. (The ice cream is really good by the way)
We ended up walking back to the hotel after that, not because of the bus ride to the restaurant was terrible, it wasn't (turkposter seemed to be ashamed of it, but I can assure you busrides in europe are no better, on the contrary), but we wanted to stretch our legs and see more of the city (and ofc talk shit to turkposter and smoke more marbeezies)
No.184445
Before parting with turkposter for the night we hit up Migros which is the local supermarket chain that sells haram things like alcohol as well and bought some local beers like Efes (and some licensed, locally made like Tuborg). He recommended us some food items, snacks, all which ended up being really good
The beercans had a little metallic foil on top of them which is a really nice attention to detail, some of the more autistic europeans usually wipe the top of the cans (since you are putting your mouth to something that went through shipping and disgruntled supermarket employees). This, of course, would be not possible in the treehugging libtard-loving bullshit-bubble that is the european union, it was a really nice touch.
Our creditcards worked flawlessly despite having the fears of the transaction being blocked by my bank which has the vague, unprofessional description of "the transaction can be blocked if you travel to an exotic country, please notify us first"
After shopping we parted with turkposter and started sampling the beers, drinking a little more since we won't be driving the next day anyway. We took some cigarette breaks during the night and by then the bustling center in the inner city was quiet and deserted, cold setting in, in contrast of the mild 15-20C of the daytime this also reminded us of the sahara (sorry)
The beers were decent. Not much to write home about, but they weren't bad (hungarian beer is terrible compared to them)
No.184447
The next day we set out to see more of Ankara with turkposter. We visited Anitkabir which is the mausoleum of Atatürk and it includes a museum of his life, the wars he fought and his personal collection of books and gifts from various other nations. This man singlehandedly saved turkey from ruinous western powers (that ruined europe to doom it to the state that it is in today), if you don't hate the french the brits and germans, now is the time to do so. We were impressed by Atatürk, every country would deserve to have a great person like this, but in reality, not many get to have so. We even met an other guy in the museum who was guiding some other people but upon noticing turkposter guiding us, he asked where are we from and shook my hand after finding out I am from the tribe of Attila the hun as well. Hell yeah motherfucker, turkic tribes should stick together.
In the afternoon we set out to visit another museum, but unfortunately we missed the opening hours. Still, the museum was located in the old districts of Ankara, lined with bazaars, steep hills, shops of all kinds and we had a good stroll there too. I enjoy these environments, we have some of this at home, lots of chill people. We bought a shoe from a friendly old turkish man here for my buddy which served him well throughout the trip (and made him look less autistic too, imagine the drip if we had stayed for longer, that nigga would have gotten the turkish rizz treatment, but hey, it's a start). It was nike AF1, or could have been a fake one, but the price was decent and the quality as well and it was pretty much the only shoe that was available in proper size (46-47 or 12-13 for you americans)
No.184448
>>184447>We even met an other guy in the museum who was guiding some other people but upon noticing turkposter guiding usthat guy is professor in some ankara university, he gave me his card but i accidently lost it btw
No.184451
>>184447look the second photo
2 autists :DDD
No.184452
>>184451shh don't tell them
No.184453
On the way to the hotel, turkposter took us a to burgerplace which sold an interesting iteration on the classic burger recipe by using some local dough recipe baked into a bun and used meats prepared in turkish fashion. It was decent and interesting.
Turks have this interesting business model in place which looks like arcades but it's homeconsoles and you can play them at these cafés. Not that we tried one, they were standard homeconsoles afterall but still, interesting to see.
When we got back to the hotel, some strange shit went down, our car was parked in front of the hotel and some 304 walked up to us and started talking to us since we are foreigners while we was smoking on that red pack with turkposter and talked shit. This woman first said I was handsome but upon finding out I was not the western european, she tried to rizz up my bud, who was also very confused. She showed us some google translate text that implied she wanted to move to western europe and she needs money (???) or a boyfriend (???), she even showed us her visa to said western country. We tried to brush her off a few times but she was persistent, we could only get rid of her after 30 minutes and she gave my bud her number. She didn't look like a bad girl, maybe a little old and a little craziness in her eyes but hey. Eh whatever. Went to sleep without drinking this time since we had a long day of driving ahead of us.
No.184454
>>184453that girl situation was wild
using me as translator, my incel ass, she stopped talking to you as soon as she learned you are not western enough
i swear geomaxxing is legit we going to take reddit swede to turkey his autism will be fixed inshallah :DDD
No.184455
So, in other words, your favorite thing was the Ataturk mausoleum?
No.184458
>>184456nigga didn't mentioned mein kampf book part tho
his autist dutch friend noticed you can see mein kampf, swastikas everywhere. we were exploring pirated book bazaar and nigga saw mein kampf and he bought it for memes. i took a picture of him holding nazi book in front of bazaar tho
that part was also wild :DDD
No.184463
>>184439>(I've never been to china, of course)>>184456>(I've never been to Australia)its cool i went there for you
No.184473
>>184472turks and italians eat a lot of tomatoes
big reason why they are bald
No.184474
The border crossing was ass. They were really autistic about it, they separated me from the car, I had to go through an airport like structure while my bud had to go through the vehicle inspection.
The georgian woman at the counter asked some questions about the length and goal of our visit, seemed to be nervous by my vague answers after I told her we do not in fact have a hotel reservation already. But they let us pass. I had to wait for my buddy to get through with the car and I inspected my surroundings.
Georgia was something else.
In fact, it was the biggest blackpill when it came to alcohol.
The people in turkey seemed young and slim, while people in georgia seemed like husks and/or bloated messes.
The cars were no longer well kept unlike turkish cars, many had dents and ugly repairs on them.
Still, new country, new hopes, new fears. Will my credit card work?
We bought sim cards at the border so we had unlimited data this time, which was nice. European car insurance doesn't cover georgia so we had to get a temporary one there on the spot
The sim card guy ripped me off with 5 euro. Fine, unlimited data is still valuable. So we took off towards Batumi.
No.184477
Let's talk about driving for a second. Turkey is interesting. If you are an european, it may seem like chaos. But it's still a very successful chaos. It's more like a school of fish moving together. We didn't see any accidents, or got into one, nor seen crashed and dented cars. Once you got used to it, you pick up on it and can expect what other drivers will do (which is unlike europe, where your expectations are more limited on the assumption that the other driver will obey the law or etiquette). It's still a freeflowing driving style that often ignores rules and common sense, but it is overall successful.
Now, georgian driving is like turkish driving but it has no flow. In a short time after crossing the border, we almost got into several accidents.
Without a doubt, this is caused by the brain damage that comes with alcohol. Georgian driving is just retarded, and when we left the country a few days later, we were glad to be back in turkey.
No.184478
>>184477what worse
visiting georgia but not gambling vs coming from europe but not bringing balkan femboy to motherland (serbian femboy) :DDD
No.184479
We figured batumi wasn't our style and it was still early so we decided to push on towards Gori, the birthplace of stalin.
The unfinished highway didn't provide many opportunities in itself, it is still in its infancy. They didn't have a lot of gas stations, and the ones available weren't really finished, they just plopped down a square piece of concrete next to the highway, built the gas station on it, the exit lanes were short and crude.
I took a picture of this retarded dog for AWW, he likes retarded dogs.
The weather was cold, even if the sun was shining, it was a stark contrast compared to the lukewarm weather of coastal turkey. There were spots of snow everywhere and we could see huge mountains on the horizon.
No.184482
We arrived to tbilisi and went to maccas to eat some trash. Turns out the trash there was different, Big Tasty there involves real meat, not frozen shit.
Booked a hotel and set out to get some supplies. There were 24/7s and the shops that weren't kept being open late into the night.
We bought more beer and some wine.
Here we had the face the first truth. Every beer in georgia is the same. They are all made in the same factory and it doesn't matter if they had a western label or a local label on it. There is only one beer in georgia.
Now, the wine, the second truth. Georgia prides itself on its wine. They even claim they invented it, or something. There is just one big problem: it's shit. It's bad. I'm not the biggest of sommeliers and gourmands when it comes to wine, it's not even my favorite type of alcohol to begin with. But I am from a wine country and I know a few things about it.
We tried two mid range bottles from the store which had a decent shelf dedicated to wine only. One was semi sweet red, and one was semi sweet white wine.
The red wine lacked depth. When you drink red wine, it should coat your mouth, stick to your insides and leave an aftertaste in your mouth. This had none of it. It washed down like a simple fruit juice. This was bad, real bad, so I tried the white one.
The white one was too sweet. The thought scares me as what do these people would classify as sweet wine if the semi sweet is already this far gone in one direction. This one also lacked depth.
This experience devastated me and along with a beer issue it put me off of trying anything else. We didn't even finish the bottles. Just left them in the hotel room when we checked out, defeated.
On the fourth picture there is an irl dark souls weapon that we found in the wild, I think code vein has something like this. Funny.
No.184486
>>184485The car situation in Georgia was interesting. They had US imports and japanese imports despite being far from both places. And ofc the occasional european import.
And they had chinese trucks as well.
We have even seen japanese german cars imported from japan to georgia with the japanese dealership stickers
Sometimes they cared and got their own US plate style plate on their cars, and sometimes they just fucking hammered in the EU style plates into US/JP plateholders. Depended on the owner, really.
They had US passats too and japanese kei trucks
It's interesting if you are an EU carfaggot
No.184495
The people in georgia more or less looked like this pepe. I don't know where americans got their naming to describe white ppl as caucasians but it sure as hell isn't accurate.
The girls were okay looking, but not as good as the girls in ankara were, there my head turned left and right like it was my job or something.
So after being done with georgia, we headed back to turkey to once again continue along the black sea coast with the goal of reaching greece. Crossing the border into turkey felt like coming home at this point, some russian babushka tried to sell me whisky as I got into the car and I told her: "No alcohol. Ramadan." This made her curse as she turned away and we took off
The real blackpill about georgia is that it's not very interesting. It got an uptick in tourism since accomodation there is cheap, so as long you come from a country with strong currency, you will think it's cheap. But as a hungarian, food items weren't even cheap, just the same as back home. And there is the wine situation. It's a good country if you want to spend some time away from home but it's not special. Didn't feel special after turkey, and especially not special for what came later.
We weren't sad or anything about it, but we both agreed about not wanting to go back there. Some of the natural beauty is locked behind turmoil right now, thanks to the lovely neighbor of this country.
We took refuge in an apartment on the black sea coast from google maps which was clearly more intended to be used in the summer. Some of the faucets were broken and it was in a slight state of disrepair. I've seen some shameless jank there regarding electricity which made even me blush as a hobbyist electrician.
We watched some turkish tv that had traffic accidents, kids mauled by stray dogs and shit like kgs and chino would watch
It was right next to the sea but we couldn't smell it since the apartment block was actually heated with coal and it stank. This was not uncommon in turkey.
I was slightly on the edge since the host actually celebrated ramadan and I still had some pork products in my backpack.
No.184502
Mods pin mods pin we love IWOs
No.184505
The morning came and the deal with the car shop fell through. They said they don't have time for us and they couldn't sell us parts we wanted either. There was a manga store in this town but that didn't open till 11. It would have made sense if the shop worked on our car in the meanwhile. Lazy greeks on a friday, go figure. We were really tired at this point and had no choice to push forward to Thessaloniki.
Greek roads and highways are bad. In turkey, one could clearly see where the taxes went, they had good law enforcement equipment and mostly well built roads. Greece instead was a small country that was highly militarized. So no leftover money for infrastructure and the police cars were so old, the markings were faded on them. The highway toll system was archaic and stupid. We often had to stop at classic toll gates to pay for 1-2 euro sections, most of which weren't maintained well either.
We finally reached thessaloniki after a while which poses as a large city in the region but after turkey, it felt like a midsize town. Still, we found a competent car service there, and a real master of the brand fixed our broken door handle without materials quickly. It was broken in a way I would have bet against him but he succeded.
This made us happy and after two days of schizodriving we finally took rest in an apartment which we booked for two nights.
The greeks had a lot of awesome ancient cars, if you like such things, this country is a must. Even if a lot of them were just rare shitboxes that disappeared from Europe decades ago. Somehow their climate rots these old cars a lot less and the greek economy also forces people to fix their things instead of throwing away.
No.184527
bonus content:
After that, my friend hung around for a few days. We fixed some stuff on the car (which funnily enough only shat the bed a little after the trip to the end of the world) and went to budapest to explore manga options. Sadly that was a bust, no such thing as translated hungarian manga exists, but they had an ample supply of english ones (blehh) for a steep price (blehh).
There was also a soyboy store nearby which sold some anime figurines we tried our luck there too.
No manga, but I had some funny conversations in that store. They had some games on sale as well, I talked to some guy who thought I was a store employee and asked about "the samurai game" which I thought he meant was AC shadows since the store had a collectors edition on display so I just flat out asked if he meant the nigger game (yes with the hard r). He actually meant black myth wukong. How is that a samurai game? It isn't, of course, but the store did have a copy of it. He also talked about how he didn't like Wo Long, but before that he talked to some femcel about how he liked Ronin, so I just asked the obvious "why did you buy ronin in the first place, if it's the same studio as wo long?" He said it's different. He also swore that Silent Hill 2 remake is a great game. I'm not a horror guy so I said sure.
After that I noticed a fallout 4 artbook and made a pained expression but the previous conversation already alerted a real store employee who had a Vault Tec shirt on so he knew I was game for some shittalk. I said "I spent too much time on this game" to which he replied "aren't we all. And the previous games too. Fallout 1 and two"
I said "so you are a real OG" and he replied "that's not the problem. The problem is that I'm addicted." That was cringe and funny at the same time but I rolled with it. He later said "at least now all the developers who made fallout games are under one umbrella and we got the show too"
"What, microsoft? Come on now…"
"But but we might get something" to which I put up both of my hands and said "listen. Just forget it. Starfield happened. Just stop." He was somewhat defeated at that. We browsed through their figurine offers, they had some good ones but I don't buy those, they just take up space and collect dust.
The store actually had a decent selection of physical games but we had an appointment at an underground shooting range in the city. I got to shoot a desert eagle .44 and a desert eagle .50AE. The gun wasn't even that big in my hands but the recoil, oh boy.
So this was also a fun day, the last day. We also ate hungarian gyros made out of beef and drank hungarian made ayran.
My nigga is currently on the way home to the west and I am rotting at work.
As a final verdict, Turkey was great. We will go back there maybe next year. Huge country, charming. Georgia is somewhat worth visiting once, but if you have one chance to go somewhere, it shouldn't be georgia. The wine is a meme, the food is a meme. Greece is great but you have to visit that country with a plan. Some places are great and some are just boring.
But you shouldn't go into turkey blind like we did, booking.com doesn't work there, sim card is highly recommended and they don't really speak english. We will explore the southern part next time, wouldn't recommend the black sea coast.
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thank you for reading.
No.184528
macabre
(YOLO)
No.184529
good thread
>>184527>But you shouldn't go into turkey blind like we did, booking.com doesn't work there, sim card is highly recommended and they don't really speak english. We will explore the southern part next time, wouldn't recommend the black sea coast.nigga you coulda asked me everything about turkey before tho :DDD
you guys did schizo travelling, like no one fucking visits ankara or samsun, it is not touristic places, you were talking about visiting Hatay which got destroyed by mega earthquake few years ago
im gonna give you some names just keep in mind if you want to visit turkey again
Bodrum, Marmaris İzmir, İstanbul, Antalya, Alanya, Çanakkale
you can check "Göbeklitepe" if you want to visit eastern BSR kurdish area, if you like history, read here, it is oldest temple in the world
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
No.184547
>>184540bullshit
greeks are brown meds, blonde hair is slavic feature, anyone who has blonde hair most likely not greek but slavic
No.184582
@adamy && kotia
this thread should be /archive/d
No.184583
>>184582it’s too new, maybe after it’s had more posts and gets closer to the limit
I haven’t had a chance to go through it yet
No.184593
>>184590The numerals we use also mathemics , binaries & and 0
Rated: 1.5/5 No.184594
>>184593Fiber optics too
Rated: 3/5 No.184595
>>184582Really good thread
Love when posters meet up
Still not as good as me and hewatt meeting and his mum told me to look after him and he came back with a black eye :DD
Rated: 0.5/5 No.184783
very nostalgy northpole type travelogue
read later
No.184931
>>184441>Google mapsNigga just use Waze :DD
Rated: 2.5/5(YOLO) No.184934
>>184437>It was already late in the night and no hotels allowed check in at such a late hourThis sounds so strange
Why the heck would no hotel allow check in?
Like nigga you have free rooms and want money
I want a free room and have money…
Rated: 3.5/5(YOLO) No.185197
Moved to >>>/meta/700.
No.185199
ok i archived
still have had a chance to go over it but im high rn
i even accidentally moved it to the meta board instead of archive originally lol
No.185216
>>185199It didn't work properly
Inshallah we will make it to Hatay next year 🙏