Perhaps he thought Vegetarians were a weird cult who would start trying to proselytise other diners?

As someone who had to live with a fundamentalist vegetarian daughter through her teenage years, I was not best pleased when, after she’d left home, she told us on her last visit, “I’m not a vegetarian any more!”

I still cannot understand how it broke. It was just sitting on the floor of a mosque, so as to capture the ceiling, and, when I picked it up, one of the little rubber knobs at the base of the legs had fallen off.

I cannot force it back in, using any level of force I can muster (how did it fall out so easily?) and the tripod cannot really be used without it.

I have been eating a lot of bread and lentil soup. Partly, I do not want to hold up my fellow travellers much and, partly, the kind of places where you can manage with English and gestures tend to be the kind that serve almost exclusively meat.

Thus far, my experience wıth veggie kebobs has been very poor. One that I had in a fairly decent restaurant was just terrible and one my father ordered today was a pile of veggies topped with slabs of meat.

Meghan,

Unless they did not want to eat out at all, vegans should probably avoid Turkey - or at least come in anticipation of enormous problems.