Lewicki: Turkish Impressions

In an effort to get any remainder and change the environment, I decided to go for a short stay by the warm sea. The choice was made for Turkey, as there is now a very good attitude of quality to the price of tourist services.
I've been to Turkey many times, and I gotta say, I like this country. On the 1 hand, there is simply a well organized field of tourist services, but on the another hand there is inactive quite a few local color, as well as a truly large wealth of antique memorabilia, many of which are well preserved and access to it is rather free.

The beginning was encouraging. The flight was held by Boeing 777-300ER of Turkish MGA lines. It is simply a large device offering completely different, compared to low-cost lines specified as Ryanair, flight comfort.
There's a lot more space here, and I got a first-class compartment with a button-controlled chair that could be freely configured, up to a full horizontal distribution to a comfortable couch, where you can sleep freely during the flight. It is essential to benefit, due to the fact that soon, according to the announcements of those who want to "save the planet" and have gained influence over EU governance, even a 747 tight journey in the tourist class, is to be severely limited and for fewer people available.

Landing at Antalya Airport after midnight. You can immediately see the difference from the airport in Poznań, from which we were leaving, where there is only 1 short one, having only 2500 meters, runway and a tiny terminal.
This is the standard in Poland, although the vast majority of Polish airports are even smaller than in Poznań. Here, in Antalya, the lanes are as many as three, and all are much longer than Poznań, and 2 terminals are open and 1 more large in construction, and the port in Antalya is not the largest Turkish airport.
It is time for a real airport, specified as the planned CPK, to yet be created in Poland. It is time to end the grandfatherhood and to invoke that we do not request a large airport, due to the fact that it is in Berlin, which 1 of the most crucial politicians of the organization has erstwhile given up, unfortunately, to rule.

We were in the hotel in the morning, during the first Muezzin call, which immediately led us into the local culture.
I will not compose about the details of my stay, but I will only draw attention to any crucial elements that disagree from what I noted during my last stay in 2015.
Then, 8 years ago, in tourist centers, it was possible to observe a multinational crowd where it was hard to identify 1 dominant group. This was a hindrance for the Turks who, judging only by their passing appearance, assessed the country with which they were dealing, and in specified a language they tried to offer their services.
Now this has changed due to the fact that the vast majority of all visitors come from 1 country, namely Russia.
Therefore, Turk no longer bothers to talk German, Italian or Polish, and the conversation with everyone starts with Russian. This Russian dominance is besides seen in advertising, where you can see only 2 languages: Turkish and Russian. If you don't know Turkish, you have Russian.
Of course, to buy something, you don’t request to know any abroad language, but it is simply a problem.

It was akin erstwhile we wanted to buy an extra journey to Pamukkale-Hierapolis. Pamukkale is simply a unique place on a global scale where stalactites and erosion boilers happen on the surface of the earth alternatively than in caves. In close Hierapolis, however, a large ancient Greek theatre was preserved in a very good condition, which must be seen as well as the tomb of the apostle Philip.
To sign up for this trip, we entered the office of a well-known agency called Maxwell, assuming there would be a service another than in the neighbouring Bieriozka, where even the name, written Cyrillic, indicated that it was an agency run by Russians and for Russians.
However, it turned out that Maxwell was mainly focused on the service of Russian-speaking tourists and the agent spoke to us in Russian, and, as for trips to Pamukkale, 1 journey a week, whose deadline was not right, is served by an English-speaking guide, but 3 others have only a Russian-speaking guide.
There was so virtually no choice and we signed up, with any concern, to the Russian group.
It turned out, on the departure, that there were almost Russians alone on the bus, and we, a couple of Poles, and inactive a couple of French. Our erstwhile concerns about the possible hostile gestures and behaviour of the Russians towards us have proved unfounded. Nothing like that happened.
The guide, from Tajikistan, Mrs Aygul Miriam, proved to be an experienced individual with quite a few interesting information.
The tour was successful and without any disturbances, which was possibly besides affected by the fact that he was besides involved, as presented to him, a typical of the Turkish Ministry of Culture.
However, it seemed that even if he was actually an worker of this ministry, it was alternatively a safety department alternatively than a national heritage. specified a Turkish specificity that makes it more safe there than in another mediate East countries, or possibly even the EU.

Overall, a successful stay, and if I can advise people who besides intend to go to Turkey, is adequate to bring dollars alternatively than the euro, in tiny denominations. This is due to the fact that in many places in Turkey, the dollar is considered to be equal to the euro, although we have a 10% exchange rate difference in favour of the euro.
Nor should the net be utilized by roaming, as its price in Turkey is very high. It is best to usage Wi-Fi only, or to buy a prepaid SIM card, which unfortunately is not inexpensive either.

Finally, specified a curiosity concerning German-Turkish relations. all now and then I like to look at what he writes, especially on Polish, German, government portal Deutsche Welle. Is he, as usual, holding a tough anti-Polish line.
In Turkey, to my surprise, it turned out that the full dw.com portal was not available there. It was simply blocked.
They seem to be doing this unnecessarily, due to the fact that in the fresh elections it turned out that most likely due to this simple, even primitive German propaganda, attacking president Erdoğan, his election results, among the Turkish diaspora in Germany, were better than in Turkey itself. The finesse of German propaganda, even for the Turks, is completely indigestible.

Stanisław Lewicki