Traveller’s Cave Pension - Goreme, Turkey (Cappadocia too)

We wanted to spend another night in Cappadocia, but didn’t have the budget for a third night at Esbelli Evi. Back to reality when we moved to the next town over into a budget version of a cave hotel. Some of the rooms were better than ours, but we took what we could get. A basement room back in the corner, truly a cave carved out of the rock, with 5 beds.  It did have an ensuite bathroom, so it could have been worse.

While staying here we met a fascinating American woman named Evelyn, currently living in the French Alps with her youngest of four children, a 16-year old daughter (at a boarding school), but actually Evelyn was born in Lumberton, NC. Now for those who don’t know NC well, Lumberton is way out in the country on the border with South Carolina and not necessarily the mostwordly small town in the state. But Evelyn had traveled everywhere in the world it seems and was spending a few months in Turkey to beat the cold of the Alps. She must be in her late 50s/early 60s, but that doesn’t prevent her from hiking alone for days on the Lycian Way along the Mediterranean coast, nor does it slow down her use of hitchhiking as her preferred means of travel. In fact, many years before she, her husband and four children hitchhiked through much of South East Asia. This of course was after she had hitchhiked from Washington State all the way into South America with baby number 1 and pregnant with number 2, sometime before she met her future husband in Morocco.  As you can tell, she left quite an impression and her story would make great memoir reading.  Wow!

Not much else to say about this pension though. Not great, not terrible.

WGGSH? - No

WWSHA? - Maybe, if we could get room 11, but there are probably better ones