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A date with a touch of Turkey.

Turkey is large and varied. Find one market, park or promenade in your own city or region that invites you to explore together.

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4 plans you can actually try.

Use the country as inspiration. Check local opening hours and make a plan together.

Combine two local ideas

Choose a combination. Are both ideas out of the question? Find places close to each other or spread the two ideas over two days.

Go out and taste something

  1. Pazar finds

    Walk around a local market, choose vegetables or fruit together and turn them into a simple meal at home.

  2. Tea with a view

    Choose an accessible tea garden or a quiet spot outdoors and make time for a long conversation over çay.

Try two new things

  1. Promenade after sunset

    Take an evening walk through a park, along the water or across a square once it gets cooler.

  2. Simit and ferry views

    Pick up simit and find a public spot overlooking boats or ferries in a Turkish coastal city for a simple breakfast.

Try two new things

  1. Tea with a view

    Choose an accessible tea garden or a quiet spot outdoors and make time for a long conversation over çay.

  2. Promenade after sunset

    Take an evening walk through a park, along the water or across a square once it gets cooler.

Things to do together anywhere

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You can also try these ideas in Turkey. Choose a place that suits you both and check what's available locally.

Indoors
ALSO FUN HERE A charity shop giftEach find something small in a thrift store that suits the other person.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Hot chocolate taste testMake two kinds of hot chocolate and give each other a blind tasting.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Charity shop missionWith an agreed budget, each find an object the other person would choose.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Tea three waysBrew the same tea in three ways and taste how time and temperature change it.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Plant cutting swapEach swap a small plant or cutting and give it a name.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Blind tasting at homeSet out three everyday snacks and try to guess the flavors with your eyes closed.View the idea
Outdoors
ALSO FUN HERE Photograph the sunsetFind an open view and each take one photo as the sky changes.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Thermos walkFill a flask and walk a short route together with one lovely place to pause.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE An unfamiliar neighborhoodChoose a neighbourhood you rarely visit and walk for an hour without a set destination.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Blossom trailFind a tree-lined street or park and look together at the colors already on show.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Urban nature bingoMake a bingo card with birds, plants and small natural details in your neighbourhood.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Colorful flower routeFind five different flower colours along the way and make a photo collection of them.View the idea
Indoors or outdoors
ALSO FUN HERE Market breakfastEach buy one ingredient at a market and make breakfast together.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Coffee in an unfamiliar neighbourhoodTake the bus or cycle to a neighbourhood where you've never had coffee together.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Train rouletteChoose a station within half an hour's travel together and explore one street there.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Harvest market tastingChoose two seasonal products at a market that you haven't tasted together before.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Flea market missionEach find an object with an unexpected story at a flea market.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Sunrise breakfastHave an early breakfast together somewhere you can watch the sky slowly brighten.View the idea
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