Summers In Mersin Mean...
- Heat and humidity all of the day and most of the night- Deliciously fresh cherries, apricots, watermelons, peaches and melons
- Being disturbed at 6 in the morning by the rubbish truck consuming its load
- Beautifully-shaped ladies everywhere one looks
- Thousands of people relaxing in the city parks until late every night
- Escapes to the summer houses down the coast and up in the mountains
- Beachside outdoor nightclubs pumping out the latest Turkish and Western hits
- Terrible body odour, especially on the crowded buses and trains
- Many German, Dutch, French and other European number-plated cars belonging to folks returning to their homeland for holidays
- Boys swimming in the polluted city bay sea
- People wearing shorts (rarely winessed outside the beach in all but the hottest weather)
- Ice cream!
- And, this year, political campaigning for the 2007 Turkish general election
PS: cryptic types may have noticed something unusual about the post title: by moving a space, one can make the following word sequence:
sum mersin mersin mean
The place name 'mersin' is written twice in a row and surrounded by two of the most important statistical terms: sum and mean
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