Eden Gardens Assos

... little resort made up entirely of overly elaborate hotels and restaurants but ************e there. We found an idyllic campsite overlooking Lesbos with it's own jetty. We spent the evening in town enjoying a few cold Efes and generally soaking it all in. All in all a pretty good find.

... about 40 meters from where I stepped out. Right in front of the entrance to the otogar was one of the larger inter-city coaches. Its destination card said Izmir--south, the direction I was headed. I inquired about a seat, and was gestured to get on.

Ezine was about half way to my destination, so I only had about another 30 minutes on that bus, getting down to the next stop at the small town of Ayvacık (EYE-va-juk [a sort of French j ...

... Madrid. We got free meals while we were there, and the room was a definate step up from the hostel we were staying in before. It was a bummer to get a day stolen from us, but we were treated well. So Wednesday we flew to Istanbul where Koyzat (Sara's husband) picked us up and drove us to their condo in a far suburb of Istanbul. Istanbul, by the way, is ENORMOUS. THere are over 10 million inhabitants, and the city covers about 600 square miles. Its the third largest ...

... at by Turkish women for having minimal knowledge of what to do, it was an interesting experience that I'd recommend to anyone. After we got changed and met up with each other at the main entrance, we looked at each other and just started laughing. The whole time each of us was going through our own experience, we were also picturing how the other was getting through theirs....too funny. Here is the website: http://www.cemberlitashamami.com.tr/

... d already celebrated it when we were in Egypt...greedy) and Topkapi Palace. Also enjoyed a cruise on the Bosphorous except stumbling across 4 little kittens who'd just been kicked out of a house and were without their mummy. We went and bought them some fish (I think the Turks thought we were a little bit strange...I can't imagine why) but they were even too little to eat that...although one of them was old enough to hiss at me. We're hoping their mummy found them soon.

... much on the price, but on how much she could get for the price. It was an interesting technique but seemed to work. We were headed for a very small coastal village called Assos which had been recommended to me on the TurkeyTravelPlanner website. The drive was easy and we found the turn off for Assos with no difficulty thanks to my wonderful navigator. The last 20km of the drive were around a very small road right on the ...

Dear all, Our first glimpse of Nepal came from about 30000 feet as we could see the Himalayas stretching out before us. I took the mandatory 'Himalayas from the window of the plane shot', you know the one that always ends up a white and blue blur and when people see it they always ask, 'what's that?' Of course mine was going to work, but when we had the film developed the first thing that Miriam said was, 'What's that?' One of the first things that we noticed about ...

... had a great dinner available - and now we know - they thought we were the Aussies!! They were just heading of to Pamukkale, which will be our next stop, but looks as if from now on we'll be a day or 2 behind them. Was fun bumping into them and very unlikely even though we were in the same area! We had asked Jill and Gordon, who had been there 6 or so years ago, whether Assos was worth visiting and they were right. This is our first real ancient Greek ruins and ...

... and finally arrived at the park that marks the battlefields on the lower half of the peninsular around noon. I hadn't realised how important the Gallipoli battles are for the Turkish people (they call it the Canakkale Battles) - but this is where they forged their identity as a Turkish nation, not as just part of the much wider Ottoman Empire. So the Turkish monuments became an important part of our visit as much as the NZ and Australian ones ...

... the word and gets it wrong, then they are out and the other person wins. But you can play it with multiple people. We had dinner. What I had for dinner was an omlette and then we had ice cream. Then we went to the movie Transformers. How they did it in English and Turkish was, the guys spoke English, but the words showed up in Turkish. And then there was an intermission in the middle of it. Then we went to bed. Josh ...