Gorno-mountain roads ...

Gorno-mountain road. They are very different. While in the city - two separate bands, separated by palm trees, artificial mound, where he grows all or prickly flower. But as soon as the terrain becomes a rollicking - here the band counter is incremented, and the driver is already impossible to relax for a second. On both sides of the road, very reminiscent of our roads in the villages - villages. Too little is still in Turkey. Surprisingly (I thought it was a purely Nordic and Scandinavian even coating), all the local houses under shingles. Red village while using the exact same water heaters (it is clear that there is no heating plants), as in Greece, particularly in Athens. Couple minitsistern roof basking in the sun during the day, in addition to them - solar battery. At first glance, to the rural landscape - is also some incredible high-tech.Is it not at all, but it is common. Of course, that heat water gas or electricity as we do in the suburbs - far less sparingly. The road climbs slowly to the mountains and become serpentine, where you never know what size and when oncoming vehicles pop up from behind a corner. Left and right of all new grow, like green-clad mountains of astrakhan - smooth, but it does happen and cliffs. Covering roads - very different. Most often it is grainy "sandpaper" - literally bigger grain sandpaper. Good, thick asphalt found only in resort ... This, incidentally, is also significant moment: here, though variously covering roads, but it exists, is not bald, as we have. And everywhere, very often have to go around road works - that is the question no nonsense here is solved rapidly and everywhere, not just where the administration has the means.When the road is here, of course, not gold as in Russia - recently someone found considering that the Moscow road at cost at all to anything in comparison does not go. Corrupt allowance - what can you do the post-Soviet bureaucrat does not want to live badly. But in Turkey, judging by the fact that here is easy to fall into Russian builders - this is no problem, or it is reduced to a minimum. I think the style of government Ataturk long weaned bribe-takers then rolled lip. An example from another field, seemingly opposite - completely absent begging. Only once we are faced with it, and then at the distant traffic lights in Antalya. PENALTY! The solution is elementary - without the hypocritical charity yakboy compassionate bureaucrats. Worldwide begging - network business, and we must fight it with adequate measures.There - enough penalties. Apparently, considerable. Social security, means to cope. Otherwise, who would be granted at the Ataturk demoratii would suffer? Everything is balanced. The mountains here are not Caucasian, softer in the bends, as well as differences of well-being - yes, there is a long time not to reconstruct the village, and even abandoned (though this, we drove only once and it alone), but here is an interesting figure - mosques everywhere, the that is modest in size (available to repair), all the same for fresh look, have a megaphone on the minaret, from which, almost military discipline broadcasting your mulla. It - public policy, and that - a policy of secularism is steadily becoming obsolete clerical past. Agriculture, too, is striking: on a small piece of land (the mountains) manage and cows graze, and olives grow.Diligence Turks strikes, in the absence of external signs of black soil, by the way: the soil in the best clay, because everything here mountain descent close to the tectonic level, and this is a different color limestone often swings from white to brown. That is why Turkey is not only puts Russia is building in Moscow (even in the nineties grew Mosenka Plaza on Samotёchnoy will not lie), she delivers food to us - a lot of mouths to feed. And with such modest land these products. And some cotton! Always with this serpentine course, you will not see - and it is necessary to us, hurrying, rush to the resort area, eight kilometers away. Yield not to the Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea - scale strikes. It is possible and so in Sevastopol, on the road to the coast to marvel at - but here I swear beautiful. Countless bays themselves as the waves look alien being moved, until it is in the city, among the small white houses ploskokryshih.Such I have seen in Greece, in Patras - they are easy to distinguish the ancient landscape. Of course, this new home, but they are illuminated by white ladders here and there, sometimes parting in front of ancient parchment with yellow columns (as in Greece, but it is near here - to the Greek island nearest the sea and twenty minutes). Dmitry Black. July 2010.