12/5 Mon Sinop2

After last night's pub party,  we slept in. 

In the shower I washed my jeans, 6 hankies, socks and undies.  I doubt they will be fully dry by the time we leave. 

HAIRCUT

Walking up a lane and we pass a barbers shop. Next thing I know I'm in the chair. 

Continued up towards the main tourist drag. Dropped into a couple of jewellery stores. No purchases. 

MUSEUM 

Up to the museum.

Fascinating things for me:

1. Non Christian grave stones.

2. I'm curious as to why the pots have pointy bottoms. Seems so impractical. 

3. Glass blow moulding.

4. Christian icon pictures.

5. Seagull nest and eggs.

6. The amount of effort put in by the government to create and maintain these museums.

7. Cannons and Cannon balls. 

ARTISAN MUSEUM 

Having done a museum, I was ready for coffee.  Phoebe indicated she'd like to see the Artisans museum. "Pervane Madrassa".  This is essentially a courtyard of handicrafts. In the far corner, I spy what appears to be a coffee option. A bit of hand waving and slow talking establishes that we can obtain filter coffee (as distinct to nescafe). Phoebe spies "Sinop Mantisi" on the menu and this is added to the order. Coffee turns out to be individual plungers (which is fine as it's not Nescafe) and the Mantisi is amazing. 

MOSQUE 

Wandered through the mosque opposite "Pervane Madrassa".   Inside it does have a very quiet revered reflective atmosphere. Not knowing the vagueries Islam means I do not know the back story to the architecture. 

ICE CREAM

Dropped into yesterday's ice creamery. I had a very good cookie's and cream in a cone.  Phoebe had a below par caramel. Neither as good as the under construction ice cream of yesterday. 

WALKED HOME

First along the main drag and then down a side street toward the harbour and our hotel. Sat on a step looking at the fishing boats mored up against the walk way in the harbour and Phoebe had a cigarette. 

EUROS AND ENTRY FEES

One oddity we've seen a few times is they will quote a price in Euros but only accept payment in Lira and every time they have to work it out for each customer even though the price is the same. For example we visited a museum and the sign said 3 Euros. Furious button pushing and they decide 136.43 lira. Well we only have 200 and 100 lira notes and there's a ton of confusion. We find a 10 euro note that we offer and they explain that we can only pay in Lira. Problem is neither they nor us has any small change. Eventually they settle for 150 lira. I should point out that 6.43 lira is 26c Australian. I'm still confused why both of us got in for the price of one.

COFFEE AND A LIGHTER

As we sat at the coffee shop,  I looked across the street and observed a person washing the walls around the autotellers. Later he washed the stairs.  Yesterday,  I had observed two blokes breaking down some building materials to take to the dump. As soon as they did that,  they grabbed a broom and swept up the mess on the ground. 

HAIR CUT

MUSEUM 

On the way to the museum.

Who Tiles the whole side of a building?

Mosaic

Headstones

There is detail on the headstone depicting the life of the deceased.

I marvel at the detail on ancient artifacts.  

In a way, we have separated form and function.  We focus on function and plain form.  Minimalistic.

A seagull has made it's nest here

The government have put a lot of effort into collecting ancient stuff and displaying it

A cat house

 

 

 

ARTISAN MUSEUM 

MOSQUE