Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: On my last visit to Turkey, I stayed in a hotel in Adana (now known as Alanyaddin, after the famous American cartoon), a bustling little city of mosques, bazaars and streets of colourful shops. My hotel was a five-star resort built in the 1960s, but even back then I was a stranger around here, and I was in awe of the architecture.
One night it was completely dark outside my room with a starless sky, complete with the occasional light that shone from the mosque. I turned on my TV and it was dark in the bathroom. I had no idea where I was, so I lit a match and held it to the window to see a couple of nearby street lights. As I stared through the window, and my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I thought I was looking into the moonlit heavens – that was when I discovered the hotel was not really a hotel at all, but something else altogether. I couldn’t see a thing from here and was completely unprepared for the shock of night that came over me.
I found myself sitting in an empty hotel room that…
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