The Residence Comfort Izmir
Gaziler Caddesi. No:206, Yenisehir Basmane Izmir, Turkish Aegean Coast, Turkey
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Train Ride to Izmir
We started the day with a visit to the small, but nice Ephesus museum where they house many of the artifacts discovered at Ephesus including some nice statues.
Following the museum we went back to Julia's to finish up our shopping in Selcuk before killing a bit of time at a cafe waiting for our train. The train from Selcuk to Izmir is quite nice and modern, but still runs very slow (fast when it moves, ...
End of the bike trip
The cyclists rode 110 km today back to Ismir to end the bike tour. It was windy and somewhat of a hard ride, but the views were spectacular and everyone was in high spirits as they rode in. I'm sure that has alot to do with the comradery that has been established on this ride. I heard many encouraging comments spoken to each other as they entered the hotel. What a great ...
Christmas In Between Greece And Turkey, Plus Izmir
... home, queue up the Christmas music on the stereo, and drink hot buttered rum or Brandy Alexanders with ice cream while cooking our traditional Christmas Eve meal together (which always had a few additional dishes, but never strayed from these basics): hot fruit soup; seven-layer salad; twice-baked potatoes; creamed corn; and fried shrimp (a tradition started because the descendents born in America could not stomach the lutefisk from Norway, and my ...
And still no sleep (part 2 of the palarver)
... half progressed we were joined by a Turkish girl who came to chat in her broken English and our non-Turkish. She was really enthusiastic about her team and the game, applauding the goals when they happened, cheering on her team when needed and teaching how to eat sunflower seeds out of their shells the Turkish way. (You'll all be pleased to here that we've bought some sunflower seeds in their husks from the supermarket next to the hotel so we can practise.)
And that was the ...
Shifting around by the sea.
... and find a supermarket and buy fruit and ayran (natural drinking youurt) which i'm now addicted to. in fact my diet seems to be breakfast (olives cucumber cheese bread and honey), ayran, bananas, oranges, crisps and beer. I also get the chance to find out about the actual boat. its a 17 berth vessel (i.e. lots of people) entirely motor driven and doesn't have the power to charge phones etc. I'll be out of touch for four days from Saturday. 14/07/09 ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Comfort Residence



