Aegean View Petra

... went for lunch. Gett&#305;ng add&#305;cted to P&#305;da &#305;ts a turk&#305;sh style p&#305;zza a b&#305;t l&#305;ke a folded garl&#305;c bread w&#305;th cheese but no garl&#305;c &#305;ts tasty.<br><br>We dec&#305;ded to go to the beach as the weather &#305;s amaz&#305;ng and we do have a beach all to ourselves back at the goat shed so got tax&#305; back and ch&#305;lled and swam and had some turk&#305;sh tea both me and Ian can not stop dr ...

... are great. <br><br>We then went for some food &#305;n th&#305;s local place next door and for our f&#305;rst sw&#305;m &#305;n the sea at the n&#305;ght t&#305;me we popped over to the bar aga&#305;n and met one of the locals h&#305;s name &#305;s lond&#305;s and he has f&#305;ve ch&#305;ldren all over the world and he asked Ian how many k&#305;ds he had and when he sa&#305;d none apart from my angel dan dan the man laughed and told h&#305;m w&#305;th act&#305;ons that he had ...

... few days playing cards with our fellow guests - Paul, Sally, Sam and Eleanor - hi guys and hope he rest of your trip was less strenous than that climb to Ephesus!<br><br>The weather was truly toasty which made the fact that the sea was icy a rather unexpected surprise. We'd taken a boat trip to explore some of the small islands lying off the coast and at the first swim stop we were itching to cool off in the beautifully clear blue waters - and ...

... few gay ones for good measure. The boy scouts appear to have built a trail up to the castle ruins, where the christians-muslims-pagans all spent ...

According to the poet Homer Lesvos (aka Lesbos or Mytlini) was part of King Makaras Empire and many of the islands ancient cities were names after his daughters.<br><br>The people of Lesvos we forced into several wars as Persia, Athens and Sparta later ruled in succession. According to legend, when Lesvos finally succumbed to Athens, the Athenian council voted to castigate islanders ...

Blind luck lead us to Assos (it's in the back assos of nowhere! Boom boom), we'd been planning on travelling quite a bit further but for once our reading of scales on the map let us down and we decided to take our chances down a coast road. Thank God we did, the place is amazing, a ...

Spring Break arrived and we decided to take a quick 50 minute flight to Izmir on the Aegean Coast... rent a car and drive up the coastline to Troy... enjoying a few sights along the way. As I have mentioned so many times before, Turkey is endowed with massive historical sights protruding throughout the country's landscape... A land that has been tread and transformed by many historical "Giants"... The stretch of the country that we took in is ...

Spent the morning shopping in Petra, because we found it so cold when we woke up...we all had sweaters on, so decided we might skip a day a the beach. When we got to the car, the outside temp read 31 degrees!...we're going to be in for a rude awakening when we get back home! Most of you know, I'm a bit of a laundry fanatic...we have a front load washer that heats the water to 95 degrees celcius...gets all ...

... through the narrow entrance to the bath, then are faced with a large square stone bath, with a cleansing menthol odour. The water is hot and soothing, and the cool sea outside is a perfect compliment to this relaxing experience. After a few dips, Sophie, the children and I are more relaxed than we would have been after a 2 hour massage, we feel rejuvenated and very happy. We've decied to go every 2-3 days from now on! Mia and ...

... del boelger, saa der var ikke saa mange der ville bade... Syntes heller ikke selv jeg havde lyst til det, men det bliver man jo noed til som guide paa en badetur, der er ligesom ingen vej uden om. Og det var jo heller ikke fordi at vandet var koldt. Ja saa kom Majbrit saa i soendags, det er rigtig laekkert at vaere tre her, selvom vi kun har hende nogle maaneder. Hun bor i selve Phytagorien by, i en to vaerelses lejlighed, saa der flytter jeg maaske ind, for det er jo ...