Hi everyone and welcome back to my YouTube channel. Today's video is going to be a Turkey Q&A. For the people who are new here, I'm originally from the Netherlands but I'm living in Turkey now for almost four years and I get asked all time so many questions about Turkey, living here, moving here, the culture and all of that. So I asked you guys on Instagram stories and here on YouTube to send in your questions that you have for me and I got some really nice questions so I'm going to be answering them in this video. If you are hearing a lot of wind in the background it's really windy today so that's why you hear maybe some noise. Of course if you're new here don't forget to subscribe and hit that notification bell so you won't miss any new videos. I upload every Wednesday and Saturday a brand new video and I make videos about beauty, lifestyle, vlogs, Disney so if you like that make sure you subscribe and of course hit that notification bell so you won't miss any new videos and of course you can also follow me on Instagram and now let's get started with this Q&A. The first question isn't Dutch but she's asking me for how long I'm in Turkey. So I moved here in February or March 2016 so that's four years ago. I remember that day really well because it was so hard to leave my family behind but of course I was also so really happy because I could be with my now husband so yes I've been in Turkey for four years. The next question is how does it feel to live in a different country? So I am of course from the Netherlands so I was only really used to the Dutch culture and I went to school there and only took the Dutch there so only one language I used most of the time so when I came to Turkey everything was different here. The culture is so different comparing to the Dutch culture but the people here are so friendly so I felt really welcome here. So coming back to the question how does it feel to live in another country? I think if you move to another country sometimes you can feel quite lonely maybe because of course you don't know any people of course I knew my husband obviously but I mean my friends and of course your family you live everything behind but because you move from one country to another it can be so how do I say this? It can be quite a culture shock and just that you live everything behind that can feel quite weird. I made my home really my own I decorated it the way I wanted so that makes me also feel like this is my home now so I feel really happy here in Turkey now but I understand that sometimes people feel a little lonely here because yeah you live everything behind so I think that's a quite normal feeling. The next question is did you experience many cultural differences? So yes like I said Turkey is so different comparing to the Netherlands. When you come to someone's home in Turkey you always have to take your shoes off and I don't mind that because I really like a clean home myself so I really like it and it's also give you a feeling like you're coming home in a sense so when you come to people's home and you have to take your shoes off and then when you visit people they give you always so much food. When you visit Turkish people they always make some chai which is Turkish tea or some Turkish coffee which is also really delicious and they give you so many cookies at Turkish delight sweets. Also they give you a lot of fruit which I really love as well. So they are very welcoming and I won't say that Dutch people aren't welcoming because they are but Turkish people have that little extra like they just want to give you everything they have and they want to make you feel like you're at home when we visit Turkish family that live further away. It is never a problem to stay there for the night like they are just so welcoming and so friendly. Also in Turkey you got some men cafes. They're little tea houses where men only men go to play some board games and to drink tea. It was so fun for me to see that because they are just men they are playing board games talking drinking some tea and that's something that we don't have in the Netherlands. Here in Turkey you also got a lot of small supermarkets. In the Netherlands in my city we just got a few big supermarkets and here in Turkey you got them of course as well some big supermarkets but what they have here on the streets is all little small markets. So when you're in a center you need a bottle of water, something to drink or anything like that you can just pull in a supermarket like that and usually it's not bigger than my bedroom. It's a really little small supermarket which is also really fun because we don't have that in the Netherlands as well. The next thing that I also think it's really beautiful about the Turkish culture is that they respect older people a lot. So when they greet someone who's older than them like a grandma or someone they have respect for they greet them first on the chin and after on the forehead so they do lips and I think that's so beautiful like they show respect for the other people and that's something that we don't do in the Netherlands but I think that's really beautiful. The next question is have you ever lived anywhere else if so how does it compare? So I already answered this question a little bit. I only lived in the Netherlands and like I mentioned already it's such a different country. One thing that is also very different from the Netherlands and Turkey is the work hours. I am currently not working but my husband is and my husband is a chef. He works in the kitchen and he work hours here are just really really long. In the Netherlands usually you start any morning at nine o'clock and you are finished at six but my husband he works from seven in the morning till maybe eleven at night and he only got two hours in a day to rest. So he has really really long work hours which is of course really different from the Netherlands. I believe in Netherlands that's not even legal to work that long so that's something that is also really different here. One thing that is of course also really different is the full tear. Turkish food is so so delicious I really love it. A lot of the things are quite healthy I would say like you have this stuffed pepper, the dhoma, Turkish chai, Turkish coffee, pide, tsaat siki, although Greek say they made it and Turks say so I don't really know because I live in Marmeries near the sea there's a lot of seafood as well. So if you love seafood you definitely have to come somewhere in Turkey near the sea which is of course also really healthy for you. So the dhuch food and the Turkish food is completely different and yes I'm really enjoying the Turkish food here and of course I'm really lucky with my husband because he's a chef and he can cook really delicious so I'm a really lucky girl. Then the last question is how's the weather compared to the Netherlands? So because I live in the southwest of Turkey the summers are really long here. In April and May it's already so nice the sun is out maybe you can already go for a swim in the sea till I would say October. So the summers are really long here of course it's not always sunny here but a lot more sunny than in the Netherlands for sure. I love to swim and I love the sunny weather so yes Turkey has definitely my preference instead of the Netherlands. Of course it's not always sunny here the winters can be quite cold it doesn't go below zero here but the wind especially the wind can be cold here. It can storm a lot thunder rain but that's usually only a few months in a year not that much. So as most of the time it's just nice sunny weather and it makes me really happy all the flowers are out palm trees so yes the Turkish weather makes me really really happy. So these were questions so I really hope to enjoy this video. If you have any more questions let me know any comments down below and of course if you haven't subscribed yet make sure you do that and hit that notification bell so you won't miss any new videos and of course you can also follow me on Instagram and I hope to see you guys soon in one of my other videos. Bye!