RE: Birol Niagara Falls on Friday

tlhdoc · Sep 28, 2003, 07:05 PM

Birol I hope you can make it to the falls. I will check here and my email before we leave tomorrow. If you can make it contact Luvourjayco and she can tell you where we are meeting. Fivegonefishing may meet us in the evening.

Hope to see you Friday.

birol · Aug 13, 2003, 10:11 PM

tlhdocI am hoping I won t get called. I will contact her if I can make it [

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tlhdoc · Aug 14, 2003, 06:22 AM

tlhdocBirol BE THERE.

kathybrj · Aug 14, 2003, 07:01 AM

tlhdocTracy- 800 loop at Letchworth?

I ll stop by, if we go. Tow vehicle problems may keep us home this week. If not, we ll stop by to say hi!

birol · Aug 14, 2003, 12:41 PM

tlhdoc

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Birol BE THERE.

Can t [

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DW is supposed to receive a copy of the house sale documents sign it and fax it back to me, and she was supposed to arrange for a fax number when she went to Turkey (29/07/03).

Today she called me and she didn t have anywhere I could fax it, one of the mail boxes etc place had difficulties with their lines and we ran out of working day time in Turkey.

She has to call me and we have to try to arrange the fax thing tomorrow. The way she is working at it, it will take all day tomorrow [:@][>:][>:].

fivegonefishing · Aug 14, 2003, 02:53 PM

birol

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Birol BE THERE.

Can t [][][]

DW is supposed to receive a copy of the house sale documents sign it and fax it back to me, and she was supposed to arrange for a fax number when she went to Turkey (29/07/03).

Today she called me and she didn t have anywhere I could fax it, one of the mail boxes etc place had difficulties with their lines and we ran out of working day time in Turkey.

She has to call me and we have to try to arrange the fax thing tomorrow. The way she is working at it, it will take all day tomorrow [:@][>:][>:].

If Tracy is OK with a 6 ok dinner, we ed like to meet then for dinner. Birol, I have to work most of tommorow and will pick up the kids after lunch to head out of town. All is not lost, maybe wifey can receive the fax in the morning and you could make it for dinner?

tlhdoc · Aug 14, 2003, 04:59 PM

tlhdocI ll see everyone tomorrow. Kathy Hope to see you Sat.

birol · Aug 15, 2003, 07:38 PM

tlhdocSorry Tracy [>:]

tlhdoc · Aug 17, 2003, 09:03 PM

birol[&:]

birol · Aug 18, 2003, 08:44 AM

tlhdoc

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Oh come on, cheer up [8D]

SheBantam · Aug 18, 2003, 02:01 PM

tlhdocI have had telephone experiences in Turkey. You have to contact the operator, and they will give you a time to be by the phone so that you can make your call (like 6 to 8 hours later), then they call you and tell you when the line is open to make a call State side. Then if you are lucky, all fingers and toes are crossed and you say your prayers, you call may go through.

Making calls there is almost as bad. Calls drop like on a cell phone.

Paula, who spent a week on Incirlik Airbase trying to get home...we went from Germmany to Turkey to be manifestd, on the way back stopped back in Ramstien, husband arrested for " kidnapping" his own daughter then they found out that he had been given custody years before by the German Yougandant(sp???), they let him go, our plane had gone, we went back to Turkey to get manifested on the next flight so we could come back home, then there was a special air mission back to Germany, so we stayed in turkey, then 2 days later the pilot got food poisoning, then finally we got to come home and spent a night at Torrone(sp???) airbase (Madrid Spain) in the snack bar (no room in the inn). By the way, that was my honeymoon (really, we hurried up and got married so I could get a car in Germany to drive as he had lost his licence) and it has been uphill eversince[8D]

birol · Aug 18, 2003, 02:17 PM

SheBantam

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I have had telephone experiences in Turkey. You have to contact the operator, and they will give you a time to be by the phone so that you can make your call (like 6 to 8 hours later), then they call you and tell you when the line is open to make a call State side. Then if you are lucky, all fingers and toes are crossed and you say your prayers, you call may go through.

Making calls there is almost as bad. Calls drop like on a cell phone.

Paula, who spent a week on Incirlik Airbase trying to get home...we went from Germmany to Turkey to be manifestd, on the way back stopped back in Ramstien, husband arrested for " kidnapping" his own daughter then they found out that he had been given custody years before by the German Yougandant(sp???), they let him go, our plane had gone, we went back to Turkey to get manifested on the next flight so we could come back home, then there was a special air mission back to Germany, so we stayed in turkey, then 2 days later the pilot got food poisoning, then finally we got to come home and spent a night at Torrone(sp???) airbase (Madrid Spain) in the snack bar (no room in the inn). By the way, that was my honeymoon (really, we hurried up and got married so I could get a car in Germany to drive as he had lost his licence) and it has been uphill eversince[8D]

Woow, quite a story and I am sure it happened some time ago, the telephone system is modernized and you just dial from your own phone, for the last 15 years or so. But before that, yeah, it was just like Paula said, it was quite something

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Looks like things really went uphill after sucha honeymoon [

] I am glad you guys survived it [

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SheBantam · Aug 19, 2003, 08:59 AM

tlhdocIt was 15 1/2 years ago, we were in Incirlic, I understand that Western Turkey s communications was better back then, but were were east/south.

The first few years were rough, but we hung in there and hung together and made it, now things have smoothed out and we are doing pretty well.

Most people did not have a honey moon like mine. By the way, Raymond and I were planning on getting married, some people get married in a hurry because they are pregnant, we got married for transportation reasons.

Adana was an experience that I will always remember...young kids walking around with large plates filled with bagel looking things, selling them on the street...men selling chai, in glasses covered by the saucer in the street...small children washing the floors of the open air stores and coffe shops with buckets of water...and lots and lots of flys...we found a hotel that catered to Americans, got a cold cuts buffet, including goat and tongue (I like goat and tongue) and ate inside away from the flys. There was an international language spoken, it was the international language of the calculator...point to an item, hold up Dollars and they tell you how many lira vs dollars, on the calculator. Exchange rate was about 825 lira to the dollar.

birol · Aug 19, 2003, 10:37 AM

SheBantamDonut looking things : Simit

Chai : Cay (Tea)

And you just gave me some nostalgic feelings now ...... Cay and Simit goes well very good indeed. And the cleanliness if streets and stuff, oh well, we wioll leave that alone I guess.

And you are right, the eastern part of the country was/and still is very backward compared to the western part, it is amazing. The difference is not what it used to be, but is very noticable. Since we had so many different parties running the government in all those years, I guess it is a government policy or something, I never understood that.

1 dollar was 825 Turkish Liras eh, sigh .... nowadays it is around 1,450,000 Turkish Liras to the dollar. Something must have gone wrong badly somwhere [:@]

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