Brothels and Boats

Funny culture story I have time to write before our bus leaves to Mersin:

When we were in Marmaris chilling on the pier with some sailors of various gülets (the big yachts) we met the captain of a Dutch-owned gület. The other sailors were making fun of his boat which was easily spotted by the long string of Christmas lights strung from mast to mast. But, Turkey is a Muslim country... they don't have Christmas and therefore Christmas lights are a less common thing. And they are probably called something different than Christmas lights... but that is all I know how to call them. Anyways, they turkish sailors were calling it the whore boat because apparently the only houses in Turkey that are decorated with lights like that are brothels. So this Dutch man had decorated his boat and sailed it to Turkey... and it reminded everyone of a whore house.

It just made me laugh to imagine these guys entering a RV park in the US, seeing all the gaudily lit up trailers and thinking of them as brothels.