Thursday, September 24th, 2005

Today I skipped work and took Ebru’s father up on an invitation to go fishing with him. This was a new sort of fishing though: harpooning! We traveled to a calm beach and went to check out the water. If it’s too busy the water is cloudy, and then you can’t see the fish. A calm sea means good fishing!

I elected not to go out, so Nihad (I think that’s how you spell it) suited up and hopped in. The water was so-so, but he decided it was worth a shot. Unfortunately, there were no fish to be had. After an hour or so we packed up and went to the grocery store to do some fishing with money! We picked up a nice batch of hamsi (sardines from the Black Sea) and a bottle of rakı and had ourselves a nice picnic. The picnic stretched into the evening, resulting in me being very full and also… sleepy. Hence the short update. The pictures might help a bit though.