Grand Ozcelik Kusadasi

... on me! (More Turkish security). What a score! So, I hope that really was the Italian president, because it was very exciting!<br> After that, we were entertained by costumed re-enactors playing dancing girls, emperors, tradesmen and gladiators. Cheesy but appreciated. When we left the park, we walked through a gauntlet of trades people in a bazaar. I had great fun bargaining for Turkish Delight, Apple Tea, and saffron.<br> As usual, a few guests were late back to ...

H's Notes<br>We woke to find ourselves mooring in Kusadasi. Our tour to Ephesus had been planned for the afternoon so we took ourselves off for a walk along the seafront and out to Pigeon Island which gives Kusadasi its name. <br>The tour to Ephesus was quite stunning and the ruins were far more extensive than we had ever envisioned. According to our guide Ihsan who was born in Greece but who has lived in this area for over 30 years, only a quarter of the Ephesus complex has been ...

(Steve)<br> <br>Turkey was an interesting place. Friendly but quite pushy, the merchants literally stood in the street and tried to herd us into their stores, acting as if you were rude for not looking at their wares. We had pre-booked an excursion to see the ancient ruins at Ephesus that was well worth it considering the out of the way location and the commentary of our guide. Once built near a bay and an important trade route, silting turned ...

<br> SEZG&#304;NS - Kusadasi<br>Got the long overnight bus from Gorome to Kusadasi...my last bus trip in Turkey..ahhh..Had a really cheeky bus boy which made the trip amusing. He kept saying "hey Lady" with his very cheeky grin when he came around to offer tea and coffee. Gave us extra cakes too! Left at 8pm arrived 10am next morning. Decided to not stay at Panorama this time and give the Sezgins Guesthouse a go ...

... Next day feeling a little worst for wear we had a day drive to Selcuk which is not to far from Ephesus. We were setting up camp at a hostel called Atillas Getaway - Atilla being a Turkish born Australian. This would be home for the next two days. We arrived about 5 o'clock and set up camp on the lawn. There was an option to upgrade to a room but rooms were for wimps - camping is the way forward. The campsite was awesome - swimming pool, pool table, volleyball court ...

... which was quite impressive. The next day we went to Ephesus. Again this ruins is great (apparently it is compared with Pompeii in Italy). The library is stunning as it has been restored to how it initially would have been. It looks like something you see in the pictures of old buildings in Egypt - very richly decorated! We also saw the theater which i didn't think were quite as good as the other theaters seen in the past couple of days. The town ...

... get me wrong our little "boutique" hotel is great. But for the 12 inch TV and the "call me for hot arabian sex talk" porn, our room smelled a little funny (not sure if it was just the country smell). It was bearable, but not my favorite smell. We also got to try our skills and fire making (from watching Survivor). Jill spent about 35 minutes and 50 matches lighting the fire in our fire place. She finally achieved success with one match to spare. (that was ...

... and had a bit of a look around. No luck. Jillian had been looking for a head scarf since seeing all the options in Egypt and again in Turkey. She found a stall to buy one and spent the rest of the day happily experimenting with how to wear it. In the early afternoon we caught a dolmush (mini bus) up to a small Greek village named Sirence (Pr. Syringe-ay). It was a sunny Saturday afternoon and this was the most tourists we ...

AHHHHHHHH so i just wrote a big long entry and it deleted it on me...jerk! Ok so i've got to make this one a bit shorter. Today we were in Kusadasi, Turkey...i was woken by the anchor at 7am (looks like this may be a morning ritual until i move rooms). So i went into the town for a bit this afternoon. It was very nice. We walked through some of the shops at the port (more americanized stores) and then went to the bazaar down the street, where there were lots of ...

... More on that later no doubt. The evolution and importance of particular gods is also evident in these displays. Cybele the fertility god evolved into Artemis of the Greeks who in turn became Diana of the Romans; all over a period of maybe 1,500 years. They have plenty of busty statues to prove it. Eros, our latter ...