Sanna is in Istanbul vol 2

It's a rainy evening in Istanbul and we walk against the wind near the bus station to a small booth where a man sells bread. We step in through the backdoor, shake his hand and buy two loaves of bread for 0.4 Turkish lira while two women leave with five. He wants to offer us tea but we step back out to the stormy weather and Erdoğan tells me that the man has only one leg (but he drives a car). In one day he sells hundreds of loaves but for the day we need only two for four people because I eat so little.

I learned how to peel sunflower seeds and that çiğ köfte is the best way to eat traditional food cheap (1.5 TL for two, 0.4 euros for one). Suddenly in the middle of a movie shown in television a shiny picture of Atatürk and a waving flag of Turkey appear in the upper corner of each channel. The next day is independence day.