Clothes You Should Bring and Other
Winter: Adana is rather cold in the winter, so bring suitable clothes. If you are visiting a Turkish family, is good to wear layers because many homes have a family room heated with a wood burning stove and it gets HOT - you will heat up very quickly and want to take some layers off. Then, if you go to another part of the house, like the bathroom, it will be cold outside of the stove-heated room. There are plenty of pharmacies around (eczane) and you can get quite a bit of medicine over the counter without a prescription, such as antibiotics, if you know the general name of your medicine. If you don't the pharmacist will look in a book for your brand name and try to find the Turkish equivallent. If you feel sick and can describe your ailment (or can pantomime it if the pharmacist doesn't know english and you don't have a Turkish dictionary) the pharmacist can often help you if you...
