Friday, December 2, 2011

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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Why do Travel Agents Still Exist

That's also the case with travel agents. It seems like an eon ago, but I used to book all my travel through a nice Polish lady who ran a small agency with a few friends. Such shops are few and far between these days, killed off by the same internet forces as Blockbuster. The Polish lady and her friends long ago went on to different careers.

I travel a lot, both for fun and for business reasons. I flew a ton of places while working on Sex, Bombs and Burgers, and for its promotion - something I'll be continuing to do for the next year. I haven't used a travel agent in ages; I've found that booking online is easy and almost always cheaper.

A few friends and I decided we wanted to have a guys' weekend in Las Vegas this fall, so I set to pricing the trip out. For kicks, and because there's five of us involved, I thought I'd check with an agent at the Flight Centre to see whether he could come up with anything I couldn't. The result: not really. The prices he quoted were pretty much exactly the same as what I found, and in at least one case, they were higher. Still, I figured he'd done the work and booking with Flight Centre would mean a small savings in hassle for me, even though there was the downside of having to pay for our flights and hotel up front (if we'd booked independently, we wouldn't have had to pay for the hotel until we checked out of it).

South Korea

A few weeks ago, myself and some friends were rounding off the night in a Russian bar in the centre of the district. It was 9am and the place was packed. Overweight Koreans danced with scantily clad Russian whores. A group of Uzbekistani construction workers got drunk in a corner, watched suspiciously by the thuggish security, there to “keep the peace”. Suddenly the music stopped and the sound of broken glass filled the air. Some of the Uzbekistanis had got involved with a few Koreans. Things soon got nasty and as blood was being literally splattered about the place, four musclebound Korean mafiose ran in wielding chains and generally kicking the shit out of people. Predictably this “peacekeeping” measure didn’t calm things down and soon the only people not involved were ourselves and a gaggle of peroxide whores standing nervously in the corner. Eventually the fight ended, the music restarted and everybody went happily back to boozing and whoring.

While not an everyday occurrence, these fights are commonplace in Itaewon, just one of the reasons why many Koreans regard the area as a complete no-go. Most of the action is centered around ‘Hooker Hill’, which, predictably enough is not somewhere for that Sunday afternoon family stroll. No, Hooker Hill is the main red light district in Seoul catering for Westerners, mainly US servicemen. Walking up the hill once the sun goes down is a trying experience. Heavily made up Korean whores literally try and drag you into their ‘bars’. Shouting things like “You want play?”, “Me want talk to you…two minute…come on baby…” etc, etc. Some of the girls are undoubtedly attractive, although most are hideous. And while many Koreans would like to think that Hooker Hill is an aberration, an anomaly simply there to cater for frustrated US soldiers, in reality it is just the tip of a sleazy iceberg.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Türkbükü tatili

Türkbükü'nde en çok göze batan tutku deniz üzerine kurulu ahşap teraslarda gün boyu denize girip güneşlenmek, gün batımı sonrası gece yeterince lacivertleşince bu teraslar üzerine kurulu restoranların şamdanlarla süslü masalarında loş ışıkta, Ege'nin lezzetlerini meltem rüzgarları altında hissetmek.Gençliklerini sürekli yaşamak isteyen Bodrum müdavimleri geç saatlere kadar süren akşam yemeklerine ilgi gösterirken şıklık yarışında yanıktenli bayanlar yemek kıyafetlerine pek bir özen gösteriyorlar. Beylerin kıyafet seçiminde ise belirgin bir marka savaşı, rekabeti olduğu gözleniyor. Her şeye rağmen denizden karaya esen serin rüzgarlar nedeniyle yazın bile uzun kollu giysilere gerek duyuluyor. Durgun deniz, ızgara balık bölgenin hakim kokusu. Türkbükü çevresinde yer alan balık üretme ve yaşatma havuzlarından alınan çiftlik balıklarının türlü çeşit soslarla lezzetlendirildiği Türkbükü restoranlarında, Beach Cluplar ve barlarda Türkbükü'ne gönül vermiş turistlerin yanı sıra son yıllarda sahne, ekran, podyumlarda ki ünlülerin de uğrak yeri olması nedeniyle farklı bir atmosfer yaşanıyor.Sahil barlarında hafif aperatiflerle gün boyu tatilin ve su sporlarının tadını çıkaranlar gün batımı sonrası genellikle tanışık yüzler arasında koyu sohbetler başlıyor. Yemek sonrası ilerleyen saatlerde dans ve daha fazla eğlence için Bodrum'a gidince ortalık sakinleşiyor.

Yedigöller tatili

Kafa dinleme tatilinin en güzel yaşandığı yerlerin başında, hiç kuşkusuz Bolu, Yedigöller geliyor. Doğa severlerin yorgunluklarından sıyrılıp, doğayla başbaşa kalabilecekleri dinlendirici ortam, birçok güzelliği gözler önüne seriyor.Batı Karadeniz Bölgesi'nde, dere, ırmak ve vadiler arasında yer alan Yedigöller Milli Parkı, çeşit çeşit ağaç bezeli, ortasında yüzük taşı gibi göllerin yer aldığı bir yöremiz. Yeşilin her türünün görülebildiği ortamda, pırıl pırıl, oksijeni bol, soğuk sularda yaşayan alabalıklar, yaban hayatının parçası. Geyikler, karacalar, tilki, sincap, tavşan ve kuşlar da cabası.Yedigöller'e adını veren yedi göl, vadi boyunca yer kaymaları ve vadi önlerinin tıkanmasıyla ortaya çıkan çukurlardan meydana gelmiş. Karadeniz suyunun yardımıyla oluşan heyelan gölleri, Sazlıgöl, İncegöl, Nazlıgöl, Küçükgöl, Deringöl, Büyükgöl ve Seringöl isimleri ile anılıyorlar. Göller çevrelerinde oluşan bitki yapısı itibariyle her biri ayrı karakter taşıyor. 2900 hektarlık Yedigöller Milli Parkı içinde kayın, meşe, gürgen, kızılağaç, karaağaç, karaçam, dişbudak, sarıçam, köknar, ıhlamur gibi ağaçlar var.