The first stop we made outside Istanbul was Bursa. The thing that became immediately apparent in the countryside was that the great characters aren't limited to the capital. On stepping out of the car, the first person we encountered was a gentleman walking up the hill towards the market portion of the town. Walking at about the same pace as us, he asked where we were from - and soon enough, after a quick tour of the market, we were having tea with him in his textiles store, along with his son, an engineering student who commutes to Ankara. It was this sort of hospitality, which we came across throughout the trip, that was one of the things to make Turkey such a great experience.
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