"I can't stop touching myself!"

10.3.12

This is our last day in Selcuk and our flight tomorrow is an early one.

We decided to spend part of our last morning here getting Tom a real Turkish shave. Tum (pronounced Tom), the owner of our hostel promised to show Tom the best barber in town. We went to the barber and the barber was told in Turkish to give Tom the works. There was one man ahead of him so they brought us apple tea while we waited. This is something that is always done here, guests being provided with an apple tea. After our tea it was Tom's turn and he received a soaping with an old fashioned shaving brush, followed by a shave with a straight razor. The barber shaved is face and his head and then he lit a tiny "wand" on fire and burned off some ear hair (yes, really). He then trimmed nose hairs and put several tonics and lotions on his head and face, which he followed up with a head, neck and back massage... All for 10 tl (equivalent to $5.00). Tom gave him 20 tl! On the way back to the hostel Tom went on and on about how smooth he was. When we reached the hostel he turned to me and said. " I'm so smooth, I can't stop touching myself" (tee, hee!)

After the shave we checked in for our flight and then went out to visit the Isa Bey Mosque, had lunch and then headed out to catch our shuttle that will take us to the airport for our one hour flight to Istanbul.