Club Hotel Grand Efe
Travel Blogs from Izmir
Smyrna - Running on empty and a wild goose chase
... How many universities in Izmir would have Homer's Iliad in its curriculum? We picked the most prominent Ege University (which had its own Metro station!) after discovering that it had a Department of English. We sped to the outskirts of Izmir and got off at the University station. The rainwater had formed a pool at the station entrance and we waited inside hoping to ask one of the students the way to the Department of English. We did not get much help as a couple ...
Welcome to the country of the doner!
... And now, I was standing in turkish territory! My entering to the country was rather funny, as i had to leave my backpack and passport in the border and ilegally walk inside to look for some atm, get some change and come back to pay for my visa. They didn't have cardreader and I forgot to prepare the cash for this, hehe! But apart from this little setback, everything went smooth afterwards, and I easily found the bus that took me to Izmir and ...
Izmir
... to get back to our room. Our room was so tiny, we both couldn't move far and had to walk on the bed to get past each other, the bathroom door wasn't a door but a shower curtain, the reception had a bird in a cage which we could hear talking and squawking until midnight and people also smoked in the reception and bar areas so it was always smokey throughout the whole hotel. We couldn't wait to get out of this place! Next destination ...
The unknown charms of Izmir
... A bar area shaped like the prow of a ship stocked brightly-coloured liqueurs and poor quality whiskies. The breakfast room was decorated like a bizarre wedding, with yet more plastic flowers, cluttered walls with strange trinkets and poor quality prints of oil paintings, and silver-tinted chair covers.
After pausing only briefly in our little room, we headed out to explore this city which is much overlooked on established tourist itineraries. Far from the throng of ...
Let the Fun Begin
... just wasn't going to cut the mustard.
Anyway, several hasty mobile phone calls later to our now in the bad books travel agent and it was sorted. Well almost. Plan B was we now fly to Hong Kong (no change from Plan A), collect our luggage (Plan A had it booked through to Izmir), then attend the Turkish Airline counter at Hong Kong airport and have our new tickets re-issued (more Plan B). Of course we had no confirming ...
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