Friday early morning I leave Istanbul and touch asian soil for the first time of this trip. Not with suryananda but at the airport…. Little problems when I lose key and phone when my luggage is checked but nothing worth writing. Flight is passing quickly as I sleep all the time. This morning it is raining for the first time on this trip in Istanbul. When I come to Vienna the sky is blue and sun is shining. Stefan picks me up at the airport.
While being in Vienna I want to repair my tooth and get a solution for the computerproblem. I check for the parcel at Austrian post but they don’t have it yet. I am already thinking about buying another cheap laptop when I find out Monday morning DHL has my parcel and it is on delivery already. So I get the computer Monday morning and as soon as I have it I go to the dentist. The weekend was already very busy but Monday is killer. The dentist tells me he has to make a tooth root treatment …..
I am lucky enough so all things are perfect until Monday night and I even had enough time to meet many soultouching people when being in Austria – like Lukas (who helped me with the car electric) and 4 friends of him who invited me for dinner Sunday evening. And Christl and John – friends of my mother who life in the US. I hadn’t seen them for a long time so it was very nice spending some time together.
Tuesday I go back to the airport carrying a lot of ginger, the repaired computer and a new tooth. The plane is late and I am already concerned about being late in Istanbul. Car repair is not opened all night and I have o address or phonenumber to call them – anyway they don’t speak any german or English. At the airport I try to get a shuttle but I wait more than an hour still being the only one who wants to go. There have to be 8 persons for a shuttle. One hour later my reservation gets canceled – no shuttle. I go out to the Taksis and immediately find a couple from the phillipines to share the taksi.
Nearly two hours later I am in Topkapi – but where the hell is the carrepair? I have never seen this area at night so all looks completely different, I have lots of ginger to carry and hardly any idea where to go….. Luckily the blue mosque is a fantastic landmark so I find the workshop half an hour later. Suryananda seems to be great and I decide to have dinner at the restaurant next to the workshop. Again I am invited because people are amazed of me using my fingers for eating. Even though they tell me to stay and drink whatever I like I go to bed early – its been a long day. When I turn on the computer I find unprotected WLAN so Internet possible in the car! YEAH! Some hours later I finally go to sleep.
Tomorrow I will leave Istanbul – Inshallah!