We were very excited about the next phase of our summer as we began the journey to Turkey. Another early morning to catch a ferry from Athens to the Greek island of Chios. The ferry trip was 9 hours of heat, cigarette smoke, dogs barking and board games! It was certainly not the lovely, entertaining and enjoyable type of ferry we experienced last summer on our Baltic's tour.
On our arrival at Chios, we found the next ferry terminal that would take us to Cesme Turkey. First we en-counted a small problem with our passports because the border security did not stamp our passports when we arrived in Greece. Thankfully we looked honest and they let us through as our entry point being Macedonia.
They let us board the little, old ferry that only took 10 cars to Turkey. We were all laughing hoping that we would make it alive. It was only a 50 minute trip to Turkey and we meet another family who were moving to Turkey from Sweden. They had a problem that all of their documents and money had been stolen, we also had a problem because our car isn't officially in our name so we all bonded very quickly knowing it might be interesting once we reached Cesme.
As predicted everyone else went through the Turkish customs relatively quickly. As for us and them we needed lots of patients, stamps, checks and waiting. Eventually after 2 hours of paper work, our car was let in to Turkey. The other family were still waiting when we left.
But we did get to see a lovely sunset from the port and arrived at our pension only a couple of hours late, around 10pm. A very long boring day, but we were all excited to be in Turkey!
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