

Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey
I sat next to a 15 year old Turkish girl and her aunt on the plane ride form London to Istanbul. The girl, Bosnra, was able to speak a fair amount of English and we spent the majority of the flight talking in a mixture of my broken (hardly functional) Turkish and her English. Occasionally her aunt would ask a question or two and Bosnra would translate it for me. I learned quite a bit of Turkish on the flight, not to say I am any good now. After we landed the two ...