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20 July, Mardin
MardinKale Pansiyon 50TL (negotiated down from 60TL)

What a super rest day. We strolled up the hill and along the main road of the old city, which clings to the hillside below the castle. A çay evi shaded by trees and overlooking Mesopotamia was open and served us Nescafe, the owner unperturbed by us eating our fruit breakfast at his table: bananas, cherries and peaches. Then to Mardin’s museum, located in a beautifully restored and modernised old sandstone building. Assyrian Christians settled in Mardin in the mid-15th century. While few remain, Mardin’s museum speaks with pride of various religious and other groups and the tolerance practised in the town. We lunched well at a place that served Charl’s beer in a pewter mug usually used to serve Ayran, a yoghurt drink, the proprietor explaining that passing Turks might be offended if they saw him drinking beer before sunset. 

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Mardin museum
Mardin museum
Mardin museum
Mardin museum
Charl drinking from Ayran cup
Charl drinking from Ayran cup
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