Aeolis Lésbos

... went for lunch. Gettıng addıcted to Pıda ıts a turkısh style pızza a bıt lıke a folded garlıc bread wıth cheese but no garlıc ıts tasty.

We decıded to go to the beach as the weather ıs amazıng and we do have a beach all to ourselves back at the goat shed so got taxı back and chılled and swam and had some turkısh tea both me and Ian can not stop dr ...

... Englısh as we are not really on a tourıst route but we made ıt ınto town and the bus dropped us at a taxı place. We had not booked anywhere to stay as we had rowed a lıttle about where we where goıng I wanted a hotel wıth swımmıng pool as the weather ıs great but Ian wanted thıs tradıtıonal pensıon so we decıded to take a rısk and not book anythıng untıl we got here.....

Anyways we ...

... 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!

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.

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 ...

... across from Lesbos, the famed home of Sappho, from the Ancient Greek land of lesbians... Above the rock hued fishing village lies the ancient ruins, a beautiful conglomeration of structures spanning thousands of years of inhabitance... a temple to Athena, massive sarcophagi lining the necropolis to the edge of the city walls, building remnants lived in by Aristotle as he studied physics and biology before becoming Alexander the Great's tutor ...

... cold, the rain sends a chill through your bones. I'd like to visit Eressus, the birthplace of Sappho, and the petrified forest on the west side of the island as well as the little towns tucked into crevices around the island. But when I go to rent the car and inquire as to the schedule of boats to Turkey for our eventual exodus, I hear that phrase that sounds like a bad joke...you can't get there from here...it's winter...no you can't fly ...

... at one end of the city was the site for a famous Ephesian jewelry maker to denounce Paul and his teachings before an audience of twenty five thousand. But later, when Constantine permitted the practice of Christianity, the pendulum of power gradually swung the other way, and Christian leaders assumed the reigns of the city. Hopefully this resulted in less bloodshed, but regrettably it certainly resulted in the destruction of any number of temples, monuments and artworks deemed ...

... call, we drink some free apple tea and then follow our proprietors to our transport...and there it is a white minibus, well medium-to-small van. Already we are laughing as the man asks for three skinny girls to climb into the front seat (it just sits two) and the first two come and then Dasrul (man by the way) who fits in the category of skinny girl comes and has the pleasure of sitting with the skinny girls, well done Dasrul. Finally after squeezing us all ...