Twenty Years Ago, Today, Saturday, June 27, 1998: Marmaris, Turkey
LOGS: Laundry, swimming, drinks at night. Purchased small Turkish silk carpet $US500.
CHASING SUNSETS: p221-2, “Marmaris. …the carpet shops. The carpet vendor who broke down our impenetrable “no thank you” wall, was a man with Turkish parents, who was born and raised in England, who was getting out of the carpet business, and who’s opening offer was for a stack of fifty or so carpets for $US10,000. Our actual purchase was a more modest single silk carpet.
Carole: For some reason this is not in CHASING SUNSETS – but should be: That silk carpet – we did not buy it right away. Laurie and I left the shop; had coffee in a restaurant overlooking the harbor, and discussed if we really wanted or needed it. We had not bought much on the trip and decided to buy this. I remember it as being very pretty – a medium blue with some flowers on the edge with a white background around them. I do not remember exactly what it looked like because I have not seen it in almost twenty years!! As we remember, we brought the carpet home with us that Christmas and stored it in a closet in my mother’s house where we were storing some other items. It was not there when we unpacked the closet four years later. Were we mistaken? Did we really leave it on the boat? We have torn DS apart dozens of times looking for it. Years later when we sold my mother’s house, we looked everywhere for it. The whereabouts of the expensive small 2×3 foot carpet is still a mystery.
Chasing Sunsets 