Walk/Hitch Around the World..

Hi Otabe...your website is great!! I too suffer from the same affliction, but never had a name for it before......haaaa

hi ethicalnomad, sapote hre. how goes the journey. mine is well. be in touch sometime.

For anyone else who remembers the Pudding Shop in Istanbul (in the 'old days' that is) I have bad news.
Suleman (not Sami - I'm sooo bad with names) died this year after an illness so I didn't get to see him after all. Yet another link with the old days gone. We're gettin' old!

go_2 , I'll wear my black arm band, as I did at the demise of the "Shoppe". We aren't getting older, the younger are changing the world around us. I'm still 27............................lol!

Dave

Just read your website Otabe - lots of great information, well presented. Our days of penny-pinching travel are over, but we've been there (in the mid 70's two of us lived in a Citroen 2CV for twelve months in Europe - budget of A$10 per day, A$6 of which was for petrol. Found this was cheaper than hitchhiking and staying in hostels, as could do all our own cooking, and only go to camping area once a week for showers and clothes washing etc).

go_2 - we visited the "old" Pudding Shop in 2008 (our last visit was in 1977 at the start of our overland -by public transport - back to Australia). The Pudding Shop may be recreated something like it was in the old days, but the surrounding area has changed dramatically - cobblestone streets, fancy restaurants etc etc. Certainly not how I remember the area.

The present restaurant that bears the name of 'the Pudding Shop' is nothing like the one I remember from 1969.

Sitki (who ran the restaurant in the back street behind the Pudding shop with very cheap prices and appalling food) died in the 1990s.
Does anyone remember the 'youth hostel' at the far end of the Hippodrome, which cost 6 lira a night for a bed, in the days when there were 42 lira to the £? I've never been able to locate it since.

Even though The Pudding Shop is nothing like its former self, everyone should go inside because in the back are some framed collages that give a hint of what it once was. I was there in May--have they taken them down since?

Thanks stillmoretravel!

oooo Pudding Shop people...sounds like my kind of place! I don't think travels the same now as it was; feel sorry for the younger crowd as things don't seem as 'exotic' now when you can log on anyway and text your mates..
Sapote, I am in Patagonia Chile; off to New Zealand on the 7th Feb..How's your trip going?? Are your legs aching..haaaa
Still looking for that elusive walking/hitching partner....but I'm patient..haa

ethicalnomad, hope to go to Chile one day too. sorry we couldnt meet up for that walk about. come to oregon :) trip going well. legs still attached. enjoyed the Philippines quite alot. back for last few weeks in Malaysia, bike east coast. hope NZ was great. enjoy :)