Tuesday, January 2

Visiting Polish village in Asia.

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Visiting Polish village in Asia.
It was a time to leave Istanbul. I did not expected that we would stay here for so long, but it was very nice experience. We took last walk aroudn the Blue mosque and I paid 65 Euro for 6 days parking. Our next destination was Polonezkoy. A small Polish village close to Istanbul. Agnieszka find it in her guide book and she wanted to see it. There was still a holiday and driving through Istanbul was good. There was only a little traffic before the Bosphorus bridge which divides Europe and Asia. - no traffic. We arrived to Polonezkoy around 2 pm. It was not any hidden small village but very popular tourist place with many restaurants. Since it was a Turkish holiday it was very crowded and it took some time to find a parking place. Our first stop was a the local cemetary. It was just being reconstructed and when we look at names on the graves they were all Polish. We met there local mayer who spoke very good Polish and he told us a little but about the history of this place which dates back to the late 18 century. It was founded by Polish emigrants. He told us that there are still 90 Polish - origin people living in the village. He arrange a visit to the local catholic church and museum. In the museum we could see more of the history of this interesting place. It was already dark when we left the museum. We were quite hungry and we started to look for restaurant where we could talk to some local Polish. We went to few restaurants but there was nobody y who could speak polish. We saw one old grandma adn asked her about some restaurant which is run by local polish people. She was very old and could not hear very well but she was speaking polish. She told us that her sun runs a restaurant and explained how to get there. Unfortunately he was not there and the restaurant was getting closed. At this point we were getting very hungry and did not car any more where we eat. In one restaurant called ?? it was too early for dinner and in another one did not have any vegetarian food. Finally we found a Koliba a polish stile restaurant with old polish music. The atmosphere was quite funny for us but the food was good. It was already 8 pm when we let this "romantic" Polish village. Our next plan was to go to Ankara. It was 450 km to Ankara. The freeway from Istanbul was very good and before midnight we parked 90 km from Ankara.

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