Tag: friends

Coincidentally helping to build up a plantage and getting into a Kurdish family (May 2023)

My rush through Turkey continued and I reached a lake near the city of Batman. Not kidding, I went through it just because of the name which always reminds me of a Batman action figure my mother had glued some feather angel wings to the back and hung into a tree in our garden.

I just wanted to have a rest at this lake when a friendly guy came by and invited me to a barbeque. I accepted and had a funny meal with him and his friends supported by Google Translate.

After the meal I helped them building up their plantage and we had a lot of fun.

In the evening they insisted that I have to join them for dinner at the home of one of them. It was super nice and very interesting and traditional.

Two peppers and a tomato for a tattoo (May 2023)

Julia, the elderly woman from the last post told me a lot about her life and it was always exciting. At some point she started to connect me with her daughter Gogo because she had the opinion that Gogo should accompany me on my travels. Sometimes the strength of her opinions was pretty funny.

But when she told me that Gogo was a tattoo artist, I thought that it could be fun to meet her and maybe listen to some episodes of Julia’s and Gogo’s life from Gogo’s perspective. As I had imagined, their perspectives turned out to be very different. Sometimes these differences were funny, sometimes tragic.

Gogo and I had great conversations and together we visited friends of her and talked about different directions for her future life. She had a whole lot of ideas.

And one day she tattooed me an Enzo on my arm. Something I had been thinking about from time to time. The payment was extraordinary: two peppers and one tomato.