Avrupa’dan başlayan yolculuğun rotası da İstanbul üzerinden doğuya doğru devam ediyordu. İstanbul’daki durakları ise Sultanahmet’ti. Hippiler, Sultanahmet’te Puding-Shop adlı lokantada toplanır, burada ya gruba yeni kişiler girer veya bazıları İstanbul’da otobüsten inerdi.
Pudding Shop Hippilerin en önemli merkezlerinin başında Yener’in Yeri ve Pudding Shop geliyor. Dükkan bugün hâlâ Yerebatan Sarnıcı’nın arkasındaki yerinde hizmet veriyor.
En av dem heter The World-Famous-Pudding Shop, og en dag jeg forvillet meg inn dit og tok opp min bærbare PC, stimlet kelnerne sammen rundt meg, tørket av bordet og feiet gulvet og spanderte ol.
The Lale Pastanesi, located across Divan Yolu from the Hippodrome, became one of their favorite meeting places.
Adem Colpan, 30, is second generation owner of the Pudding Shop on Divanyolu street where Billy Hayes made the drug deal that landed him in jail and gave birth to the 1978 movie “Midnight xpress.”
Hippies who couldn’t remember anything else could remember “that place that sells puddings — the pudding shop”.
Der Pudding Shop in Istanbul, damals wie so viele Häuser in der Gegend em nach vorne offener Holzbau, wo mar. unter ‘wildern Wein saß, während man günstige Hotels, Mitfahrgeiegenheiten und Busverbindungen erfragte.
Just opposite the Blue Mosque, for instance, there is a place called the Pudding Shop, a restaurant and garden and meeting place where a youthful traveler might negotiate a ride in the 1970’s to Afghanistan or Nepal.
Onwards, relentless, through the backstreets we walk to Sultan Ahmet Square is the spiritual hub of İstanbul, and in the l970s was the place to be.