Inspired to make this post after talking travel with a mate the other day. Mine was solo travelling in Instanbul. Everyone I met on my travels so far warned me about how dodgy taxi drivers there are, and in general I'm sure they're not wrong. Taxi drivers are the bane of every traveler buy I digress.
I roll into Istanbul in the evening off a bus from Bulgaria. I have no Lira and couldn't find an ATM anywhere at the bus station. A taxi driver comes up to me and I explain I don't have Lira but I have Euros. I wasn't even sure he fully understood but I was crazy tired and he agreed so I just went for it.
He drives me through the city and we try to talk with his minimal English and my non existent Turkish but he manages to convey a good amount of information on his Armenian family and stuff which was pretty cool. I was also a bit shakey from not having eaten since breakfast which he understandably interpreted as nervousness so gives me a cigarette.
Anyway we get to the destination and in my head I'm like seems like a good guy but also a taxi driver in Turkey so I'm expecting to give him like €50. This legend says I'm his first ever passenger and he doesn't want me to pay him! I couldn't let that happen so give him €20 and dude insists on giving me change in lira which was more than enough to buy me a great dinner.
Of all the introductions I've had to a new country that homie was straight top of the list
Submitted November 12, 2023 at 12:52AM by SadisticUnicorn https://ift.tt/D4KPNrf
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