Istanbul was great! Our host Sevil is one of the classiest and sweetest people I have ever met. She took us to some great places to eat. We ate traditional Turkish food, in some of the best Turkish restaurants, food fit for a king or queen. We did not want to leave but it was time to go to Ankara. Now Ankara started off kind of ruff. We are not spoiled divas or anything like that and I have stayed in Best Western hotels before, but this was more like the “worst western”. It was nasty. No way we could have slept in those rooms without waking up with a skin rash and a bad case of asthma. Our host was right on it though. Within an hour we were out of there and in a Paris Hilton five star hotel. I would have been find with a Holiday Inn, but hey. Actually it has been five-star the whole trip, so shy change now. From that point on it was all-good. The concert was held in this nightclub, and we killed it. I felt it was one of our better performances. The success of our shows, rely largely on the quality of sound, and the soundman was on his game. The club had set us up in a closed off VIP section, and supplied us with our choice of liquor, so after the gig we drank a bit more than we should. That next morning after we came to it was time to catch a flight back to Istanbul for a few hours before we would have to board another plane for Romania. The good thing about the long lay over, we got to hang out with Sevil again, and she is definitely consistent because we ended up at another choice restaurant, followed by tearful good-byes. I really hope we get back to Turkey some day.
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