Woo woo Taşucu. Now, if I had arrived on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday I could have taken the daytime ferry over to my 50th and final country, Cyprus — and wrapped up The Eurodyssey Challenge in exactly three weeks. But, alas, it was a Thursday so I had to sit around all day and most of the night in Taşucu waiting for the daily night ferry, scheduled to leave at 11.30pm and arrive in the town of Girne (Kyrenia) at 5.30am.
So I strolled along the waterfront, past the pleasure boats decked out like pirate ships. I stopped off for a bottle of Efes with my new friend Captain Ibraham, a salty sea-dog who worked on the boats. With the tourist season over, he was happy chilling in the September sun.