Galini Hotel Lésbos

... that followed I was try&#305;ng to get the goat back on &#305;ts leadto the place where &#305;t should be the other goat kept try&#305;ng to mount &#305;t and me and then &#305;t kept eat&#305;ng all the flowers &#305;t was too funny &#305;n the end luck&#305;ly the man came back and they had a comedy half hour try&#305;ng to get them back &#305;n there own sheds.<br><br>Ian was talk&#305;ng to the men &#305;n the bar from the n&#305;ght ...

... and our fr&#305;end lond&#305;s jumped over the fence and jo&#305;ned us br&#305;ng&#305;ng us coffee! Its so n&#305;ce to be w&#305;th the locals and see how they lead there l&#305;ves he told us tomorrow that I could m&#305;lk the goat so awa&#305;t p&#305;cs of that and he &#305;s go&#305;ng to take us on h&#305;s boat to rabb&#305;t &#305;sland &#305;f he gets back from Izm&#305;r &#305;n t&#305;me as h&#305;s mother &#305;n law has cancer and he has to take her for chemo tomorrow. <br>

After another multi-vehicle trip involving a minibus, ferry, minibus, ferry, bus and finally another minibus we arrived in Ayvalik - a lovely harbour town backed by old Greek stone houses built into the steep hills. <br><br>This time the climb to find a room was worth it as we tracked down a lovely guesthouse right at the top of a narrow alley with fabulous views down to the mosque and waterfront. Many an hour was spent on the roof terrace over the ...

... few gay ones for good measure. The boy scouts appear to have built a trail up to the castle ruins, where the christians-muslims-pagans all spent ...

... executing all the adult males. Though the edit was voted down before any action was taken, the idea of Lesvos with only female inhabitants was born -- hence the term "lesbian".<br><br>This was a charming Greek island with a rich history. Lesvos was considered the very center of Greek culture and society. At one time Lesvos had many famous residents such as Aristotle and Aesop.<br>

... 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.

... description than one would ever imagine... an archeological site revealing 9 Troys, each layered on top of each other... stretching back over 5000 years to the bronze age... with Troy VII, the city of King Priam and his son's Paris and Hector and the lovely Helen... with it's destruction by Menelaus, King of Sparta... with Achilles at the forefront of the battle... All written by Homer and possibly lived by the character's that live immortally ...

... I may have said Troy, Truva, or Canakkale. Whatever, I was motioned into the back seat. It was a mother and father and their son, he in the back seat. He was serving his military duty in Canakkale, and his parents had come from Istanbul to spend a half day with him on a drive to Assos. He spoke more English than his father. I asked him how it was that he had a relatively cushy assignment to Canakkale. It is a more or less usual policy of the Turkish military ...

... with turtles that come up to the shore to be fed, drove over 1000 km on an island smaller than a postage stamp, and visited a museum with petrified trees where we had a personal guided tour by a masters student from Venzuella. We went out of our way to go through some of the towns Mylene has described in previous editions of the blog - look for the shaky typing and search for fold-in-your mirrors ...

... Hvilket jeg ikke har noget imod, det bliver bare en smugle trist i laengden, uden en enkelt udflugt. Men haaber flere af dem kommer til at koere naeste uge. Har heller ikke faaet koert Efesus endnu, hvilket er meget traels, for det er altsaa en udflugt jeg er lidt nervoes for, faa vil gerne snart have den foerste af de ture overstaaet! I aften skal jeg til noget sankt.hans aften ude paa en strand naer hvor jeg bor, min to kolegaer tager ikke med, saa ...