Hotel Evelyn Pithagórion

... sell this manufactured ****. It is an insult"! Rob, ever the diplomat, said "Quite right, quite right" and we then made as dignified an exit as we could!! Khios Again While we were on Khios it suffered a number of hill fires. To put them out they used a helicopter wit a large bucket hung on a string below it. The pilot brought the chopper over the marina and, just on the other side of the wall lowered the bucket into the water, filled it and shot back into the hills ...

... Ephesus we visited a popular leather outlet store (mainly to take an air-conditioned break from the 100-degree heat) and then had our own carpet demonstration. Turkey is world famous for their oriental carpets, and our demonstration was at a sort of village that offers room and board for women to weave carpets by hand. Everything is done without machines; the women even spin and dye their own yarn. The village gives 75% of the proceeds ...

... of St. John.  Times changed. Today, things have changed even more, although the streets of Ephesus are equally busy, only with tourists enjoying the ruins.  The harbor is long gone, as the river silt has created five more kilometers of land.  The siltation of the harbor was a major cause of decline, as the loss of a port meant that trade was hindered. In Selchuk, the newer, much smaller town, I took a Turkish bath, which included a scrapedown with a woolen ...

... some interesting ceramics and other retail opportunities. o A tunnel through the hill behind Pythagorion which was built by the Greek ruler Polykrates to transport water in the 6th century BC - it's not just the Romans that did good engineering. o The drive to Karlavasi through the foothills of the mountains which seems to offer drop dead gorgeous views around every twist and turn of its extremely twisty turny roads! One evening we heard someone on the quay ...

... a festively round local walked into the middle of the theatre and started belting out "O Sole Mio" in a finely tuned operatic voice. It was incredible. The sound traveled with acoustic brilliance all the way round the amphitheatre, and made the hairs on the back of my neck stand straight. He finished with a lengthy high note to the cheers of the few lucky witnesses- wow.