Tonight was dinner with the whole tour - :Lorin and I shared a local dish called Tesdi Kebab – they put all the ingredients in a pot and seal it with dough and bake it for a few ours – then to serve it they slice the top of the pot with a small sword like knife and pour it in to a heated dish – with a warning to watch out for bits of pottery. It was delicous!!
Meals with all or the group are great fun as everyone will share a taste of what they ordered so get to taste many more dishes than you could ever taste on your own.
After dinner it was back on the bus for short drive to the Turklish bath.
You start off by collecting a pair of plastic sandals and a checked sarong and then you go to a change room and get into our togs.
Once these preparations were completed it was time for step 1 – the sauna which was so foggy you could barely see the person sitting opposite you and so very hot it was hard to breathe – you endured this for as long as you could and then fumbled your way to the door where you were directed to the plunge pool – which was just a little bit of a shock to the system but oh so refreshing after the sauna and then it was back to the sauna you went. The sauna seemed so much hotter the second time and I didn’t’ last nearly as long – so I wrapped my now very soggy wrap around me and head out again this time I was directed to a second room where we were directed to lie down on a rather unappealing looking slab of marble – but rather than being cold it was hot – so hot in fact that we has to ask them to cool it off with some cool water. And while a slab of marble doesn’t sound very comfy to lie on it was surprisingly so.
After an unknown time laying on the slab you were lead off to an alcove were there were individual slabs and you were loofahed. Once you were loofahed generally you were sent to a shower to rinse off and from there it was off to another marble table for the massage
I was lucky and didn’t have to move for my massage – I was rinsed off where I lay. The massage was slightly disconcerting but blissful. First they soaped you up – by blowing up a calico bag that had been soaked in soapy mix and blobbing it over you and then they got down to work – one of the most relaxing things about it was that none of the guys really knew any English so no talking required.
After the massage it was back to the heated slap for a while before time to get dressed.
The final bit of pampering in the massage room happened just as you are leaving all languide and relaxed – they tied a fresh dry towel around you.
After we were dressed time for a relaxing cup of tea and mot of a game of Talva with Selim before time to head back to the hotel and sleep.
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