A Turkish Family Invited Us Into Their Home

We didn't plan this at all. We were just passing through a small village in Turkey when a family invited us into their yard. A few minutes later, we were meeting their goats. What happened next turned into one of our most memorable experiences in Turkey. The kids love to hear. We're children, we're big kids. So cute. Goats are different to sheep. Oh, look at this one. Look at this one, they're brown colours. Oh, you have to put them away, yeah, because I'll run out. Yeah. I'll get into the road. Wow. Oh, that's so sweet. We've got a treat. Definitely. That's the size of a tree we can buy. Have they got a tree we can buy? Ask if they've got a tree we can buy small like that. Next time, Oh, mind your head, mind your head. Okay, so they're planting. We have come to a homestead in Turkey, and this is a family that is basically growing their own food on their land. And yeah, they've invited us to come and have a look. Brilliant. Well, grandma's up in the tree. This is good. It's good. That's amazing. That's amazing. That's brilliant. Fig. Fig. Fig. Olive. Olive. Olive. Yeah, that's olive too. Fig. That's fig. I don't know. Yeah, one's okay. That is good here, but the others are probably not. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. But that's cool. Avocado. Oh, avocado. Really? No. But no good. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. What religion are you? Oh, gross. Oh. English. English, metal. Metal. Yeah. Metal. Yeah. That's brilliant. Wow. Islam. Islam? Okay. Christian. What's that? Spinach. Oh, good. Grandma. Grandma. Grandmother. That's brilliant. Love it. That's amazing. We will come and buy our things from you. The vegetables. Yeah, that's really good. Natural. That's brilliant. I love it. We like to support families and buy natural. Yeah. What are you saying? Yeah. Where is the market? There is a market on Monday If you want to come, come You can come It's more on Monday, there is a market Oh, market? Oh, where is that? Oh, just there Market What time does the market start? When does the market start? Tomorrow Tomorrow, yes What time? 9? 8 Oh, good It's 6 Spinach No, no Oh, this is spinach This one is? Celery She needs to type it How do you change it? Cress Oh, I got you That's brilliant, I love it We are going to eat Which hotel are you staying at? One second No problem Which hotel are you staying at? She said, I guess No Thank you Onion And this bit That's good Thank you Oh, thank you How much per kilo? 30 You get it now? 1 kilo 2 kilos 1 kilo That one That's okay No problem We are going to eat Good, good It's nice Got you It's nice, she's saying We are going to eat Oh They are going to eat now Okay, okay, let's go I think they put oranges Look at these onions I think those are for planting We can eat them as well Listen to the baby Hello Take your shoes off Take your feet off Shoes off Not your feet Ava Vanessa Amari Your name? Yassin Chris Dates Does anyone want a date? Is that yoghurt? No, yoghurt Thank you In English Say again Teşekkürler It's Turkish Hurma In Turkish No Thank you Hello Chris My name is Chris Amari Vanessa Ava Elaine Thank you Nice to meet you Thank you This is real natural yoghurt Yeah With this How do I eat this? What is this? Soup? Is this gravy? No, not gravy This How do you eat all these? That's soup I'm not sure That's rice What is this? Oh Grape Like sauce Oh Mixed with yoghurt Big Boss Grandma So what grandma? This is yoghurt This is sweet We call it grape Molasses Dogs want it Dogs do the job How is it? It is cake Fuka Mohamed Prophet Mohamed Mohamed is very popular First name Everyone has noozle I know I think I don't know I know I think you mixed something up wrong No I've done something wrong Translate it I've done something wrong with the food This is food No Grandma is burning up She is probably calling someone to tell them to Oh yeah He said don't eat the rice This is by itself I wasn't sure if you mixed it up So this soup here is called Tahana So that soup is unique to Turkey Turkey This soup here is lentil What was it called again? What was it called? Tahana I got you I know Tahana And that goes in here This is it Tahana It's nice I don't know Of course I'll try Thank you With the yogurt Grapes Is it like plum? Yeah Ask What kind of fruit is it? Ask them Oh no It almost tastes like prunes Is it? Oh wow Fig English Fig English fig Turkish fig Is it from here? Your fig tree? Oh wow It's both Ask some more This one You want some? That's it now I don't want any more So which soup do you like the most? That one Which one? I like that one You like the... This one It tastes like meat But it hasn't though I don't think it's got meat in it There's no meat in it No I wonder if they eat the meat though I don't know It's a lot of girls Most of this country Especially Turkey, they eat a lot of goat Goat is the main animal This one That one Oh no One moment Quick Go, go, go Leave him Come Hello Baby goats Hello Problem Many feet Turn it away Hold it inside That's it Mind the fire Aww, so cute Baby goat Have you both held it? Yeah Aww, look Hold it That's it Don't be scared There you go Aww, like a dog Yeah, it's cute I held this one earlier They nibble your finger They don't bite you Right, well They're holding goats now We only came with some milk And then we got oranges from the tree And now the kids are holding goats Cress, yeah, spinach Onions Yeah, and full blown milk The people here are amazing Absolutely amazing Aww, look Okay So cute A little baby Uncle Mari And little kids Aww, look They're so cute They're like dogs I'm trying to eat my jacket They nibble Yeah They nibble When they get older they'll actually eat your jacket Guys Where we are in Turkey We've had a storm at some point And er This is the result of the storm We're getting well spout Look, there's a big well there There's nothing but spring water here Slow down Hi man Cats in Turkey are really friendly Look I have two of them You don't normally have two There's three You don't normally have three You normally have one Yep, straight back down Oh, there's some things in it Yeah, that is them They've cut the tree as well That is it Yeah You got asked about that, innit Yeah, that was it It's almost like a rose bush Yeah, that is it Definitely Oh, what a shame I know Big boss grandma You just see how it's been busy Yeah, I know It's good, so at least every Monday We know, wow And Friday Yeah, Friday Wow Yeah Wow There's loads of stuff Is it priced though? It should be No, I don't think it is I don't like buying things at price Yeah, I know Hello mobile Is that kiwi? And coconut Dried Tissue They've got brushes up What have we got? Eggs? Yeah, and cheese Oh, is that puffer cheese? Oh, puffer cheese Oh my gosh, and eggs Hello England, UK Yeah How much are your eggs? Eggs, yeah How much? Eight One egg is eight lira No, no, no, no Turkish Turkish lira The tray 240 Oh, it's similar, isn't it? Tell the guy down the road I think it was 150, remember we saw Remember in Gnuk Remember, or Kemal Yeah, and it was 150 But was it this color? 30 Oh, okay One One egg Eight Yeah, I'm not so sure about these Yeah, no, no, no Natural Then I don't know if he's taken the No, no, no, no This one's a natural color Yeah, but that's not his if you know what I mean Yeah I don't know if you can see there These ones, it's those ones, white ones Yeah, I know I can see Yeah Cheese Olive oil Honey, look Natural How much is the olive oil? Olive oil, how much? One litre 350 Okay, 350 Yeah It's okay, yeah Good price Three Yeah Oh, brilliant Twins Yeah For eggs Natural Yours? No Yeah, yeah, yeah It's these ones Yeah This Egg Chicken Exactly, yeah Caged Yeah Run In English, free range Free range In English, free range Yeah, natural run This, cage Cage, no good Stress, mad cuckoo Local Okay, we'll come back, it's good Okay Cheese What's a good cheese? What's a good one? Best cheese Good cheese Natural Best cheese, sure How are you? We're good, thank you Where are you from? I'm from Russia, but now six years I live here Oh, do you want to taste? Where are you from? UK, but we live in Bulgaria You want to taste it? It's that one Oh, thank you No salt Good, yeah, no salt Thank you Oh, no Thank you So how much is that normally? 500 500 per kilo Okay So right, we're going to try These look similar to the Bulgarian tomatoes, don't they? They probably are very similar So we're going to try it and then compare these With the Bulgarian tomatoes They look delicious We're going to go down And get some water Right, okay Let me see I don't really know which is the best way to go down But I think he went down this way So I'm going to try Let me see which way he goes Right, okay, that's the way So let me try Oh my god, why am I doing this? Okay, let me go down I'm going to try and get some water Risk it all To get some water down there for these lot Oh no, I've lost the lid Oh man I dropped the lid Right, a lid dropped, oh well So Let me go down this way I wonder if I'll be able to get that No, I can't, I can't believe it Anyway, it's fine I'll go down this way Like he just did And then Let me go this way here Let's see if I can get some water here Like he is Just like that It's all, I've done it I've come all the way down here So, I think pretty much This is all water Through, literally coming through the rocks Watch out this one I've got a lid on this one So that I do not Lose the lid Again Get some water Very nice Do you want to taste it? No Right, I'm going to taste some water in Turkey This is from the river Go Go all the way back up there I know, I ain't going to get it Right, let's go Be careful You will be gone down there Right That's what it is, nacho I prefer that more smoothness