My Sun Apart Alanya

... to Alanya, I opted to take the coach this time instead of hitch hiking. I got into the station at 6:30 and then took a city bus to get closer to the beach. I think I was pretty much in the wrong neighbourhood for cheap hotels but was able to negotiate a room down from 50 to 30 TL. The apartment had a living room, kitchen, dining area and bedroom!

Now for a walk-about town for the evening...

... la montgolfıere en Cappadoce.

Raftıng ın the Kropulu Canyon. Blue water, fıshes. Very nıce day wıth new frıends, Mıchel and Suzanne, from Montreal wıth whom we are goıng to go balloon flyıng ın central Turkey (Cappadocıa).

... Badeorte mit viel Beton, Lage um Lage hastig hochgezogen** Hotel- und Apartmentblocks, die zu Ost**n noch wint**lich v**lassen od** im Vorsaisondämm** auf die Touristenströme warten, trotz ordentlichen Frühsomm**wett**s mit 23 Grad und funkelndem Me**. Gut 200 Euro kostet ein im Int**net gebucht** Mietwagen für eine Woche, hinzu kommen ca. 150 Euro für das Benzin bei uns**** Tour, ab** die Investition ist un**lässlich, will man die vielen Sehensw ...

... all about Greek Mythology in school and Jasper had even acted as Zeus in a play so they were quite familiar with the story of Zeus imprisoning the hundred-headed monster Typhon. Anyway, we decided to enter only one cave (the asthma curing one) and descended 20 meters into a 95% humidity and warm environment with impressive stalagtites and stalagmites. It did feel good to breathe the air but serious sufferers would not have been able to negotiate the steep ...

... each other, and have been living here year round for several years. They both have houses here and it appears that they have an unspoken understanding to meet here for beers in the evening. He's retired from his clerk position in a navel shipping company, somewhere in the south of England, specializing in lumber. He tells us how cheap the real estate and land tax is here. She is living on money she and her deceased husband had saved for their retirement, and tells us of a stray ...

... were huge drops on these narrow parts where they had piled up sand to do the road at a later date. Damo's expert driving got us through and once we arrived in Alanya it was off for some drinks (only 2 each as $8 for a beer) before crashing at 2am. As it is really just a drinking place we didn't take any photos of Alanya. Alanya is a haven for Germans and Scandinavians ...

... open by the river. Ants and I chose the under the stars option and it was another relaxing evening playing with the puppies(tree house owners 4 fluffy wee things) and a couple of quiets after a scramble up the gorge. Yesterday was a drive day with only a short stop for lunch and a shop in Kos. We in Olympos now some more ruins and a relaxing day at the beach. Gotta fly so more latter Cy and Ants

... Tuesday mornýng headýng towards Anzac Cove to spend the nýght at the Banana Bar ýn tents on the shores of the Dardenalles or however you spell ýt. Next mornıng we had a guıded tour of Gallıpolı whıch was awesome to see wıthout the crowds. From there we caught a ferry across the Dardenalles and then headed South to Troy to check out the ruı ...

... started in Greece. I found the flames themselves to be utterly fascinating. The flames come directly out of the ground. There isn't a hole or something like I had envisioned. It's literally as if the rocks or the ground is on fire. There are six or seven places where the flames spew forth. It's quite remarkable and well worth a look if you're ever in this neck of the woods. That night we went to dinner and Ev and Jeremy our friends from Kas, who incidentally are both doctors, regaled ...

... got stuck and we had to push it out, we took a casual boat cruise around the islands swimming, eating and getting rid of our lovely English skin colour. Our first hit of the warm weather and we are liking it very much.....more is on the way apparently so will see over the next few days. Heading off to a place called Cappodocia tomorrow which mind you is a 12 hour drive away. Looking forward to that. Will be posting some pictures in the next couple of days.