Notes from the Evliya Ã?elebi Way: Days 21 and 22 to Simav!

Monday morning got off to a beautiful start in the mountain town of Şaphane.I had a leisurely breakfast at a family-run restaurant, feasting on bread and cheese and more tarhana soup, and then the family’s 26-year-old son Murat accompanied me to the old mosque, which dates to 1490.It was the first mosque I had been inside on the Evliya Çelebi Way, and there couldn’t have been a more perfect one for the occasion.