I have 3 hours to kill in the Istanbul airport and I must say, it's pretty good so far- it's only 17C which is soooo great, it's been uncomfortably hot in Cairo lately (40-45C)- there is free wifi (North America seems to be the only place that doesn't have it everywhere- actually I think if you looked at Maslow's hierarchy of needs here, free wifi is on the bottom level along with food and shelter...it seems to be considered a right, not a luxury)- also there is lots of duty free shopping, and of course, a starbucks.So I finally broke down and went to see our hotel doctor yesterday as my swine flu/parasite didn't seem to be getting better and I wanted to make sure I was okay for the race. He didn't have time to do the test as I was flying out that night- he looked at me really strangely when I said how far I needed to run, but he gave me some antibiotics that "are very famous"- and he guaranteed they'd fix whatever it was that was bugging my stomach- I was skeptical but they seem to be working so far and I've only taken one dose, so that's good! In retrospect, I think this may have been the root of my GI problems while running during the last 1.5 months- I just didn't realize it was an ongoing thing as it seemed to come and go, but after doing some research apparently that is a characteristic of one particularly common parasite here. Anyway enough about that, I don't want to put you off your cheerios...
I'll write more when I get to Copenhagen but hope you're all doing well xoxo C
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mmm Starbucks.. There finally starting to spread there wings here. I know out west they have been every where for some time but they would not open them here out east because they wouldn't ship that far (from Seattle).. even the ones that they have here are owned by another company so its not a good to work there as the ones owned directly.
oh yeas and all that other stuff you were talking about.. I hear ya bout the heat.. 27-30C is the max of my comfort zone..
Cheers.
Roy.
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