SE-CHUH-KU is the proper way to pronounce it. If you're like me, you'd try cell-sook and wonder why no one is telling you how to get to the right bus terminal. Anyway, I once again walked along the highway, this time to get back to Selcuk. I was planning to stay overnight at Selcuk before making my way to Cappadocia, but seeing how small and compact the city of Selcuk was I changed my mind (again, this flexibility is the beauty of lone traveling and non-reliance on hotels).
He knows me
Walking around Selcuk was quite nice. It's not too crowded because it's not a big tourist attracting city, but it does have nice cafes and buzzing streets because many people use the city for a stop to go to Ephesus. So the city is simply convenient for tourists. I'm guessing there's lots of cafes and restaurants relative to the number of hotels in the city since people don't spend more than a couple hours before moving on to their next destination.
When I was walking around the city, some guy at a store started talking to me. Just another invitation to buy souvenieurs for my family and friends, I thought, so I just said hello and kept walking. Right after that I heard someone yelled "Hey, Yamaguchi!". I looked back and realized that it was the same guy. What, he knows me? I thought in my head. He signaled me to come over (which I hate because it makes me look easy..). "How do you know me?" I asked him. Turns out that by "Yamaguchi", he meant Yamaguchi-gumi, which is the biggest yakuza (Japanese
mafia organization) in Japan. Completely fooled, I just laughed. Then him and his friend offered me a drink and told me to sit down. His friend was an English man who lives in Egpyt, and was in Turkey to visit an old friend who owns the shop (the guy who called me over was just a worker there), so we talked a lot about what I did in Luxor because he runs a traveling agency there for foreign tourists. I asked him about swimming in the Nile river and drinking the water from it and...yep, turns out it was the one thing tourists are encouraged not to do. Well at least I'm fine (for now).
When I told him I'm traveling eastern Europe, I think he took it as if I'm going to Western Europe next (which I am, but only couple countries. UK is certainly NOT on my itinerary), because he offered me a place to stay if I go. I told him if that if I do I'll let him know, but I failed to tell him straight up that I'm not interested in London because he looked so sure that I'll be going. I don't blame him for thinking all asians dream of visiting London..because it's true (99% of the time)
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