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Kodak
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 Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:34 pm Post subject: Commute time? Taksim - �mraniye |
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Sorry for the complete randomness of this question but what's the average commute time between Taksim and �mraniye (Ataturk Cad�) on public transport?
I'm talking out of rush hour, late evenings etc. |
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tekirdag
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:44 am Post subject: |
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| You would be lucky to get a commute time of one hour. I figure hour and a half. |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:14 am Post subject: |
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| I haven't been to Umraniye for years -it used to be an awful dump but I wonder if it has been slightly yuppiefied now. |
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dmb
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:01 am Post subject: |
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| tekirdag wrote: |
| You would be lucky to get a commute time of one hour. I figure hour and a half. |
Is that with or without rain? |
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Kodak
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:58 am Post subject: |
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Jesus Christ, this is perhaps going to be a nightmare!!!!
Possibly....Living in Taksim, working in Sirinevler and girlfriend living in �mraniye / Kadık�y
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tekirdag
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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tekirdag wrote:
You would be lucky to get a commute time of one hour. I figure hour and a half.
Is that with or without rain? |
I think I underestimated, actually.
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Jesus Christ, this is perhaps going to be a nightmare!!!!
Possibly....Living in Taksim, working in Sirinevler and girlfriend living in �mraniye / Kadık�y |
Dude, u gonna need an akbil...and a good book. |
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dmb
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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| A long time ago I spent 6 months commuting on IETT buses across Bogaz. It was a nightmare-especially in the winter. |
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misterkodak
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:13 am Post subject: |
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| Sirinevler? I worked in the 'nev. Where exactly are you going to be working? I have theory.. hmm. living in Taksim.. working in the 'nev hmm... could it be the "yellow misery" ? |
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dmb
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| ^ no prizes for this one. |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| dmb wrote: |
| A long time ago I spent 6 months commuting on IETT buses across Bogaz. It was a nightmare-especially in the winter. |
I used to do that and always reckoned that you had to leave Kadık�y before 6.30 to stand any chance of getting across the bridge. Much better to use the seabus of ferry to cross in the mornings.
I had a weird flashback of finishing work in Kadık�y evenings and getting the bus back to Pendik. I used to really enjoy bombing along on the bus between 9a nd 10 and then having a good few beers back in Pendik as I didn't have to get up early. (not that that would have stopped me) Those were great days. Long live English Fast. |
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dmb
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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| having a good few beers back in Pendik |
would that be in the Jazz cafe.
As the Pendik branch was winding down before closure I was doing an evening class in Mecidiyekoy but still living in Pendik. No public transport though. I got to use that taxi that the pendik branch always used. I can't remember the guys name. But he was great. He used to take us away to places like Sile at the weekend and fudge the bills to Nazif. He was none the wiser. the driver got more money and we had free transport at the weekend. |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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Jazz cafe? Have you lost your mind? I was "earning" 13 million a month plus what little extras I could get. I usually drank at home. Jazz cafe charged 50 000 a beer and the beers always looked suspiciously less than half a litre. I did however go to one of the seafront bars that was a bit rough but you got a full beer for 25 ooo.
There was no taxi driver that I remember.
Who ran the tiny little canteen? Was it a bloke with a strange facial skin problem who spoke a bit of English and would make special tea?
Oh God those days-I miss them so much. It seemed like anything was possible. |
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Henry_Cowell
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| thrifty wrote: |
| Oh God those days-I miss them so much. It seemed like anything was possible. |
How quickly life can take a turn for the worse. Now nothing is possible.  |
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dmb
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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Who ran the tiny little canteen? |
Bahri? springs to mind.
There was that men's place next to Jazz. When the girls wanted to go to the loo the waiters had to hold up a curtain in front of the 'doorway' to the loo.
we actually got cheap drinks at Jazz because the owners fancied the 2 female teachers.(this is after Liz left) |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| I remember the story about Tom and Liz who hated each other but because of the boredom were drinking together when 2 Russian sailors turned up. Anyway they both went back to the sailors' ship and did them. |
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