Angelica is in Türkiye! 🇹🇷
Just for an extended layover. My flight is tomorrow and I am not leaving the airport hotel area. But goodness…it’s already been an adventure.
The people here are very kind but also extremely inefficient. It took me like half an hour to get a bag of cherries. I didn’t mean to get so many but the grandma just dumped them into my bag and it was a lot of cherries but only works out to US 3-4 dollars. Cherries are super expensive in Taiwan and those are sooooo good!
I think I psyoped myself into thinking Istanbul is going to be a highly cosmopolitan westernized place because that’s all the Turkish ppl I know but then of course those are all the Turkish ppl that would leave Turkey. Most women are wearing veils which really surprised me. Nobody spoke English in the fruit store or the borek store.
Anyhow, I’m on my way to the fantabulous
@dalkeybookfest where I will be a speaker on Taiwan, China and nuclear. Maybe I’ll grab a selfie with Salman Rushdie! And Lionel Shriver which I am a huge fan of is also going to be there.
And of course I cannot wait to hang out again with all the ppl I know from
@kilkenomics like
@davidmcw the host with the most and
@SonyKapoor and too many others! I can already taste the pints!
Many of you might know I am a big Ottoboo so I am certainly not going to go back to Taipei without staying a few more days in Istanbul on the way back. But I’ll be in a downtown hotel in Sultanahmet where I can explore at my leisure!