Daniel's story

Tarihi Galatasaray Hamami is over five hundred years old. I was walking in the commercial district near Galata Tower. It started raining and I saw the sign pointing  off down a narrow side street. I had this on my list of places I wanted to experience. This is inside the main bath. It is quiet today.  I was the only one in here.  I laid on a big piece  of hot marble. I was naked with a towel over my  middle.  The slab is very hot and I am sweating. I imagine if the place is filled with men getting a Turkish bath the slab would be covered with naked men sweating.  After a bit a guy comes in and washes my body.  He  first dumpsy dumow bubbles from a cloth bag. Then he scrube with soap and with a hand covered  in a rough wash mit.  I was  first rinsed here on the slab, and then  a final rinse sitting by the faucet. There is a sign out front of the bath that shows in Japanese how to take a Turkish bath....

I got to a locals Turkish bath by letting the turkish carpet salesman talk to me at the blue mosque. I was standing outside the blue mosque when a sales man offered to show me the entrance to the blue mosque. He hung out and took me to his carpet place.  The carpets were very expensive.  I felt bad so I ended up buying some expensive scarves.  As bonus I was taken to a Turkish bath where the local men go.  It was my first Turkish bath.  I had the deluxe version.  I laid on a hot marble slab, got scrubed and stretched by a guy.  The a hot oil massage. A towel dry down.  I am now resting I'm a tiny room waiting for my heart rate to come down.