The first 2 days I passed a rather uninspiring landscape, but today was quite different.  No more soft hills, but lower mountains, nice lakes and some rice fields.

Samsun in a middle sized city on the black sea.

Here I met Kerim, captain on a ship from the Turkish coast guards. We had a great day, I learnt a lot from his job. I could even visit his ship, but no photos! Afterwards we had a great evening with his family and friends from Samsun Motorcycle club.

Rice fields near Duragan