This
year again I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle
of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of
the day. I hope to post every day at noon my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!). As the alternative badges, as supplied by Lissa suggest travel I'll prefer travel-related words as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once.
I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me and I have time and energy for it, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.
Today my starting word was to have been Hamam. But unlike in Danish and Turkish, Hammam in English has two m's in the middle and thus did not fit. I solved today's Wordle using another travel-related H-word, but I'm going to stick with hammam for my short story.
The average today is 4,3 -- I am still average:
Wordle 1.755 4/6
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Gnome and travelling - how does this fit together?
When travelling to Africa we drove all the way there - meaning that we went through DDR (GDR), Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Syria. We spent a long time in Turkey, driving almost all the way to the Turkish-Iranian border. This was because the original plan was to go to India, but we reached there mid-November 1979. Remember the Iran hostage crisis? So we turned around, bound for Africa instead.
Driving through Turkey in November was tough, it snowed, it rained, mud and snow made for lots of vehicle pushing, the vehicles broke down and needed repairs. In short, we were often in need of a bath. And luckily even the smallest of hamlets normally had a hammam. Beautiful buildings, with vaults and water, lots of water, hot water, and soap, and towels. Heaven for the frozen and dirty traveller. In the smallest hammams boys and girls were separated in time, in the larger we had separate wings, but anywhere, big, beefy women or men - according to your sex - stood ready to scrub you clean with big chunks of soap and dry you off with big, coarse towels. The hammams were not always impeccable, but the towels were pristine, and all of one's body tingled afterwards. A glass of hot and sweet tea tea at the nearest tea parlour finished off the treatment.
And now for today's Wordle:
Hi Charlotte, thanks for your visit on my Berlin Wall post. Fellow Wordle player here. Your post sounds like a fun and creative way to approach the daily Wordle, and the travel theme adds a nice personal twist. The memory of those long journeys and the comfort of a hammam really brings warmth and character to the post.
SvarSletThank you for this comment. It is exactly what I'm trying to do.
SletI don't know if I want to get a bath/wash in some strange land and get scrubbed by people, just nope. I welcome hot tea though.
SvarSletHave a lovely day.
The alterantive was a dip in the ocean, not an alluring alternative in November ;) And it really was good, lots of warm water, lots of soap suds ... and language troubles. None of us knew much Turkish. We were not alone, we went there in groups of three to ten at a time. The scrubbing ladies and men were professionals, it was their job, and most of them did a real good job!
SletI got 4 as well. I've been doing it since the beginning. I average 3 or 4 with the odd 2 and I think once ever got it on the first try.
SvarSletHammam is such a lovely word, I love the sound of it.
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I do not know when Wordle began, but I've been playing on and off since January 2022, like you most days I end up with four guesses, sometimes five or even six. and about 1 in 15 is a fail. I once solved it in one try as well, but that was just pure luck, as they chose one of my normal starter word as the solution and I picket that one that day.
SletHammam is a round and gentle word, but the extra M in English bothers me a bit
I’d never heard of a hammam. Most people here probably would feel as lissa does, not really wanting a stranger to be there during a bath. Of course, as you say, they are professionals, just like medical workers, no need to feel odd about it.
SvarSletHammam is a Middle east thing. Quite a luxury I found. Now I would maybe be more bothered, but still I'd like it, warm and relaxing.
SletI love a hot soapy bath, but don't like the idea of someone else washing and drying me. That may eventually happen when I am too old and feeble to do it myself, but not yet.
SvarSletIt made me feel like ancient royalty ;) Somewhere I read that they had their servants scrub them with soap and wood shavings ;)
Slet