after the train arrived in erzurum 4 hours late, i looked for a hotel with no plans on going out anymore. the guy who showed me the room switched on the tv before he left. after looking through the turkish channels i found the 20th anniversairy of 9th november, the day the wall came down in berlin, on bbc world.
it was a bit strange to see the brandenburg gate with the fireworks and historical footage of people crying on television while sitting on a hotel bed someplace in eastern turkey with nothing much to do rather than to wait for the morning. i slept well…