Day 10 Turkey - Sinop and continuation to Samsun

Today we took a tour around the Sinop Peninsula and then a small city tour with Turkish coffee and green plums...

During the tour, a turtle blocked our way at some point. It was fascinating to see how fast it was when we tried to ask it about its duties as a participant in public traffic.

Later, before leaving for Samsun, I removed the exhaust pipe. I was hoping that it might be clogged somehow. But it doesn't seem so. Then I tried messing around with the injection and the air supply, I also tightened the V-belt. Hmmm, none of it worked at first, but later it started running normally and pulled well. However, the base temperature is now slightly higher than a few days ago... It is also showing some oil leakage from the dipstick opening and the fill tube, not a good sign.

No idea what kind of problem this is. Gradual engine damage? Head gasket? Well, tomorrow I'll try something else and hope that it will hold for the next thousand kilometers.

Then we ran into a police checkpoint. The gendarme came straight to the driver's door, hesitated, took a step back, looked at the front license plate, and then waved us through without checking. For whatever reason? Probably because we belong to the good ones? Or maybe he didn't feel like dealing with foreign languages on a Sunday?

Along the way, we picked up Zeycen and Selim, a hitchhiker couple. Nice young people from Samsun, who immediately arranged a cheap hotel for us there, and just returned from a two-month hitchhiking trip through Turkey. He studies aerospace engineering, she studies German teaching. We then spoke in English...

So we arrived in Samsun in the late afternoon, covering 163km.

In the evening, we had salad and burgers at Jimmy James, a bar on the beach... Can't complain...