Emily Sámos
Grammou & 11 Noemvriou Sámos, Northeast Aegean Islands, 83100, Greece
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Shake? Rattle? Roll?
I swear an earthquake just woke me up. Then,of course I woke Jill up/ she woke up from it as well. I am waiting for a tsunami to come, but Jill said they don't happen in seas. I went to the computer to look it and found this: http://www.koeri.boun.edu.tr/scripts/la steq.asp . If I am reading it ...
Ephesus for the Restofus
... but they did. Maybe smoke signals? Or shouting? The city also had the 3rd largest library in antiquity; don't ask what the other two are.
After Ephesus we went to a leather warehouse where they put on a leather fashion show, unfortunately. I did my best to keep a straight face while the strobe lights flickered, and the seemingly drugged out "models", stumbled down the runway. It was very easy to feel sorry for ...
Ephesus - where everything old is REALLY old!
What a seriously huge day!! Holger and Sukru, our driver, picked me up at 0830 and we drove straight out to Ephesus. Ephesus is a major archeological site south of Izmir. The area has been inhabited since neolithic times with artifacts dating back to around 6000BCE discovered in caves in the hillsides. There are three sites known by the name Ephesus and the area is mentioned in Hittite sources from the 14th century BCE.
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Samos Island, Greece, My Rebound Country
... looking waterfront hotel in Ireon (the aptly named Sunrise Hotel because... yep the view over the water is of the sunrise every morning). I was given a room on the second floor with a balcony view to the Aegean and once I deposited my luggage and changed I headed out for some lunch.
Now, the town of Ireon is very small (I could probably run from one end to the other in under two minutes (and I assure you there are people who can walk faster than I can run), and ...
Golden Oldies
... day they did this thing called a rain dance. There was a dancefloor and the music came on really cheesy euro stuff like Boom Boom Boom by Black Eyed Peas and the Turkish Eurovision song and everyone gets on the dance floor and dances then at a point in the song all these water fountains underneath you start to shoot up water its really good fun and very cheesy but both me and Ian had a go with all the Turkish youth we looked hilarious. Ian had a fave slide ...



