Aziz and his amazing eyes

Aziz and his amazing eyes, originally uploaded by CharlesFred.

It is a funny thing about travelling that you can arrive in a new place one day not knowing anyone, not knowing what you are going to come across and then you can be leaving a few days later with a lump in your throat as you wrench yourself from a place which has been your home for a few days and where you have met people and made new friends, where you have experienced the touristic sights for yourself and felt your own emotions towards what you have seen.

So it is now as we say gule gule to Trabzon and the Black Sea region as a whole. Both have provided us with a myriad of mainly good experiences, deepening the love we have for the country and its people.

And now it is boarding time. We have two days, three nights left in istanbul and then it is back home...