the strangest place i have experienced
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If u have ever experienced anything like it ,write about that.I will still give.
I’ve slept in some really weird places – trains, gers, tents in the middle of nowhere, cars – but a little apartment in Istanbul was the strangest I have experienced to date. In fact I’m sitting in the living room of the shared apartment now and I can hear the drilling – a constant hum – but the windows are closed and the drilling isn’t coming from outside – it’s coming from inside. The drilling isn’t from construction of a building or home repair – instead the drilling noise comes from the construction and repair of teeth.
I’m staying in a dentist office.
As the eternal budget traveler, I decided to book a room in a shared apartment for the last 5 days of my stay in Istanbul. I have done many shared apartments before and they are generally all great. But I never saw this one coming – this apartment in Istanbul completely floored me with it’s strangeness. It was amusing to me to be in such a situation, but more than that it was fascinating for me to learn just how much American and Turkish culture is different when it comes to visiting the dentist.
When I saw the cute little room and apartment online I exchanged emails with the Irem who was managing the place for her parents who didn’t speak much English. Via email she told me that no one lived there and that her father simply came in each day from 9 to 6 and is in the apartment but that he doesn’t stay there overnight and I would have the place to myself. I thought this was slightly odd – but maybe her father needed a man cave or something and he came to the apartment to get away and have peace and quiet.
Irem met me at the apartment entrance and walked me up the 3 flights of stairs to the apartment where there was a big sign on the door. I tried to slowly pronounce it with my slight understanding of Turkish pronunciation and asked, “What does Dis Hekimi mean?”
Irem replied, “Dentist” so the mystery was solved, her father was a dentist. Once again I thought – that’s strange for a retired dentist to be renting out his office, but it was a bed and I wasn’t going to overthink it too much.