Gomeda Urgup

... does at the Austral&#305;an War Memor&#305;al), but the themes of matesh&#305;p and hero&#305;sm and suffer&#305;ng were the same - &#305;t even featured S&#305;mpson's Donkey and the k&#305;ndness of the troops to each other dur&#305;ng the lulls. <br><br>On a more prosa&#305;c note, the museums to&#305;lets were unbel&#305;evably plush - p&#305;pped mus&#305;c and coffee mach&#305;ne! Some of the to&#305;lets &#305;n the rural areas are a b&#305;t rough - I am happy I d&#305;d ...

... parking lot we see that about 50 buses have disbursed their passengers at the site, making us happy that we chose to get an early start. On the way back we happened by the Alaturca restaurant again and took the time to have a nice meal on the outside terrace. I ordered a "meatball" which turned out to be a large hamburger patty with mash potatoes. Now those of you who know me well, know that I am not a meat and potato man ...

... yet the 180 Euro price tag turned everyone away. Goreme Open Air Museum Most of this area, also made from fairy chimneys, consisted of churches, with some impressive mosaics inside. We were later taken to an area where we could climb inside the higher rock structures, which I chickened out of. On the way back to the hotel, we went to a Caravansaray - a lodge where travellers on the Silk Road to East Asia used to stay. The building was several hundred years ...

Cappadocia is a fairy tale. Not necessarily one of those fairy tales with dragons and prncesses, but there are fairies, or at the very least fairy chimneys. This is what these incredible rock formations present throughout the region are called, though in our opinion they resemble gigantic natural phallic symbols more than anything else. You can check it our for yourself in the pictures, which regrettably will come in a few ...

... Rings: Not Just For Chicks and Mobsters Any More While in Kas Laynni, Nadine and Lyle chose to commemorate their Turkish vacation with Group Ring Shopping. Everyone know that nothing says "I was there" like a ring of no particular significance. Nadine went with a butterfly motif, Laynni was dazzled by the ring of many colours and Lyle's, well, "the middle spins, see?" A beautiful marriage of engineering and acceptable male femininity. Apparently solid silver, they ...

... scenery, beautiful flowers and fantastic views of the Red valley. We stopped at a church that was cut into a rock - the columns and the curved roof were perfect - plus as an added bonus it was nice and cool inside and none of us wanted to leave! There were many monks and christians living in the area -- we thought as well as preaching they must have collected a lot of pigeon poo as there were heaps of holes in the walls... Our next ...

... had no such problems, and it is starting to show. Dinner was delightful. After a rousing family card game, we were served a tasty and colorful meal, followed by some intersting live music. Asher tolerated it, Gracey and Hayley's impression was hard to say, and Russel and I loved it. We may go back tomorrow night. We are not even halfway through,a nd we are enjoying every minute of it.

So, you've logged onto this page hoping for some X-rates story from our Turkish travels. Don't feel guilty, I'm sure you're not the only one... Here's what really happened. In our rush to leave Selcuk to catch the lunch time bus to Fethiye a few days ago, I inadvertantly left 3 of my T-Shirts on the Boomerang Guesthouse clothesline. This was actually a bit of a problem, as this was half my wardrobe. Luckily Apo is a clever lad, and he organised for my clothes to hitch a ...

HE SAID: We visited one of my favorite places in Cappadocia; the Zelve Open-Air Museum. I liked it a lot because many of the caves were accessible and some would have tunnels and fun places to climb. It's amazing how high some of the areas are in the rocks where people would be back then. They would get to them either by climbing the outside of the rock in which they would have carved out places for your hands and feet or by climbing up ...

... I can't believe that people can be so ignorant as to intentionally damage something so beautiful and ancient. Others looked as though they were being used as barns for the local farm animals, strewn with hay and plentiful droppings. Along with the churches there were a multitude of other carvings into the rock faces, dwellings and storage areas and barns, mostly, over at least a kilometre. After exploring several, we walked along the valley floor ...