Greetings and salutations from Turkey

Managed to cadge another works jolly for 5 days

This has got to be the worst place in the world to drive, makes london look like a drive in the country side.

Landed at Istanbul apparently it has a population of 50,000,000 and every one of the buggers seems to be on the road, and as for a highway code...well you got more chance of seeing rocking hore poo!

A simple rule of thumb:
If the road has 2 carriage ways marked it means you can get 4 lanes of traffic, and if its a 3 lane carriage way then you get at least 7 lanes of traffic in it.

Mirrors on cars are their for one thing and one thing only, to gauge a gap in the traffic.
The majority of drivers drive with one hand constantly on the horn and the other flashing their lights and gesticulating with there hands.

The hard shoulder is used for a daring undertaking moves thats if there isn't an on coming tractor coming up the wrong way.
Motorbikes are in the bottom of the food chain here, no regard for them what so ever, i have seen them use the drainage ditches alongside the hard shoulder as they feel it's a safe haven for them

So after Isanbul it was gentle 2 hour ferry trip across the sea of marmara and a further 90 minute car journey to Bursa...Turkeys automotive centre.
Some cracking roads and scenery coming through the gorges and mountain ranges...only thing that spoiled it was the other idiots on the road who feel they have to clip every apex going, be it if there driving a BMW, Renault 21 or 15 up in a corsa

I'd rather go pillion with beenz than drive here again

Right, off for a turkish bath, sauna and a meeting with a big hairy turkish fella for a massage

Be safe peeps

[anna]

Originally Posted by cuffy

I'd rather go pillion with beenz than drive here again

My god it must be bad then

Have fun over there!

Sounds like you're having proper fun, just try and keep safe will ya?!

Have fun mate, I can't imagine you going pillion on my little bike, or any bike for that matter.

Take care bud.

Originally Posted by anna

My god it must be bad then

Not arf!!

Enjoy the sun

I've hired a few cars in Turkey and its exactly like you describe. They even overtake on hairpin bends, although they really use their horns in a polite manner, as in "hello I here" and "you can go now" type of thing, not the "I'm angry and you've made me 3 seconds late" kinda London way

[Quiff Wichard]

Turkish baths are the tops!!

the dogs danglies.
I love em

[Quiff Wichard]

errr- to clarify-

that is turkish baths I love.. NOT dogs danglies

Too late, Quiff. You just had a lapsus teclae, which I'm sure Freud could explain.