Amore Beach Hotel Sámos
Sámos, Northeast Aegean Islands, 83100, Greece
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9th Day of the Cruise
... Grand Theatres to public baths and gymnasiums. It was all there and unbelievable. I’m still unsure why the seas all of a sudden receded or why the city was left to go to ruin but I think it all may have something to do with the frequent earthquakes in the area. All sad but terribly unbelievable and amazing. Again…a place that I never knew even existed 24 hours ago to a day and a place I will remember all my life. The only downer was that Mary ...
Ancient Ephesus - Last Entry from Turkey!
... thing. I walked around some more, but then started heading back which was a nice walk around the harbor and only took about 30 minutes to get back to the hotel. It was still early and our last night's dinner together wasn't for several hours so it was time for a dip in the pool, a hot shower and a long nap!
For dinner, Mert took us to his favorite Kebab place right on the harbor; there were way too ...
Ephesus
... Here we spent the day exploring the impressive and vast ancient port city that was once an important part of the Roman Empire. The city was abandoned after a massive earthquake in the 3rd century AD. Most impressive were the restored terrace houses where the important and wealthy citizens once lived. The mosaics and wall decorations are amazingly preserved. Currnetly they are reconstructing the ...
SW Turkey: Seaside Romps (another epic tale)
... don't do it any justice at all. In real life it is surreal. The experience of it made for a great prelude to our next full day in Olympos.
In the morning we had another delicious meal and set out to explore beyond the pension lined dirt road. The strip dead-ends at a path that leads you through a smattering of somewhat newly discovered ruins and on to the Mediterranean Sea. Relatively speaking, these are some of the most recently unearthed ruins ...
Ephesus
... relations angle, i.e, a message that says “we are here and we now own this place” and of course, to deter potential terrorist attack, of which Turkey has seen something, particularly in Istanbul. The military in Turkey has been a traditional secular counter-balance to an always possible rise in Islamic radicalism – for which one ...



