Thursday, July 31, 2014

Greeks competing for Turkish tourists - BARÇIN YİNANÇ

Greeks competing for Turkish tourists

“Ice is like water; how can I sell ice to you?” said Stavros, the owner of a mistral restaurant in the small port of Molivos. We were looking for ice for the boat that took us from the Aegean town of Ayvalık, to the Greek island of Lesbos, and coming from Istanbul, one of the newly rising capitals of the “wild, wild east,” where doing something without expecting anything in return is becoming a rarity, Stavros’ answer deeply impressed us.

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