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"Where are you from?" This question had often then the eight days we spent in Istanbul recently. It was mainly dealers and veitingamenn the streets so asked. This was the way to reach customers. In such cases, we put the question that wind ears rush and went our way. It was sometimes called, Germany, swann doorbell Denmark, Sweden, British! But when we got this same question while we looked trade goods, talked to some man of the world or to buy something or dine at a restaurant, then said, of course, was that we were from Iceland, "from Iceland". Reactions were typically they questioner what or rolled his eyes, clearly had no idea what country we were talking and had good hot. Some asked where this land was. Then avail sometimes say that it was part of Scandinavia (which is of course not correct!). "Is it behind England?" Asked more than one. "Ehh ... yes, yes," said the little hesitant (what can one say?). swann doorbell "How many are you?" Asked a salesman, he seemed to know something about Iceland. Þrjúhundruðogþrjátíuþúsund said to. "That's nothing," he said then.
Istanbul is a major trading center. swann doorbell Yet is seems like every other man is some sort of commercial operation of its existence, but women are less pronounced in verslunarstörfum. This picture is taken from the famous Grand Bazaar, which traces its origins back to the 15th century. There are about 4,500 smáverslanir and great OS. - Photo Arnþór.
It may be part of a courtesy bearing conversation that will locate the other person, ask about its origin, thus similar to the Icelander asked: "What swann doorbell man are you?" But there could every one man after another not located me from black and it elicited little strange feeling, at least not for víðförlari traveler swann doorbell than me. Under these circumstances, I felt somehow the small size of Iceland, a small country in the far north have. Suddenly a man was not really part of anything. Mention Scandinavia was kind of an effort to expand our or related other than probably would have been more effective to say that we were from Scotland, where we live now, or just the UK. Yet we find ourselves in the area Vikings in Constantinople itself with Sæviðarsund! swann doorbell But probably were residents of Istanbul have forgotten all this our ancestors, as I saw nothing that reminded them of the city. And it is dangerous swann doorbell to say much about geography skills nearly 20 million citizens from several days acquaintances. Quite imperfect geography just normal swann doorbell in the case of small island nation swann doorbell like Iceland, micro states marginalized. What do we know Icelanders such as a small country in the Pacific or the Caribbean, for example. swann doorbell
Not all dealers a roof over your head. This was most of his stress purse out on the sidewalk and let himself not lacking tea, biscuits and Sigona. swann doorbell - Photo Arnþór.
At the airport in Istanbul on the way home was well monitored luggage and passports. At one place where the staff looked swann doorbell at our passports said it had never seen such a match before and had the Icelandic passport. It did not recognize the land, and they asked us to show him some other credentials. I handed them my Icelandic license. After having answered a few questions swann doorbell about the purpose of the journey, length of stay, etc. we had to continue. No doubt this was done to monitor the "undesirable people" could not sneak to the UK by air. And all this was on friendly terms as our other communications with the locals, we may not be other than good interface.
Talking about the geography, the last full day in Istanbul I drove the eyes of a little map that hung framed on a wall, in an antique bookstore Kadikoy district, the Asian side of the strait. The map shows Europe and Iceland is in place. Map text is Turkish but with Arabic lettering swann doorbell was abolished in Turkey in 1928, said the ancient book of wine me, an older man who knew a bit of English. He added that in the heading parking "Europe", read from right to left. And something more was there for sure, but he had trouble reading the font. And he could not read the name of the country at the top left when I suggested it, he knew it not. I told him the name in English and said he was there. "Oh, you Irish," he said then. "No, Icelander." He seemed