Hotel Nazar Selcuk

... homes and gardens and finally made it to Ephesus. Ephesus is an ancient city. Actually, there are five cities called Ephesus, but we visited Ephesus #3. It was founded by Amazons from the Black Sea area and was named after Queen Apasa, which means Bee. St. John wrote portions of the bible here and died here.<br> We all piled out of the bus and started through the ruins. These were buildings and columns and roads and temples, most from the 2nd century BC. It was ...

... from the city folk!). He stopped on the side of the highway at the turn-off and they waved me off (with no a word spoken other than my poor turkish greetings &amp; farewell!).<br><br>Selcuk town itself has a few relics: the Church of St Jean, believed to be built over the site of the first church of St John (the Evangelist; the youngest of the 12 apostles and the one ...

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 ...

... a fight. If the loser fought well according to the crowd or judges, they were allowed to live.<br>We saw the old library (only for men of course), the brothel, the baths, the political theatre, and the hospital. We learned that there was a huge earthquake at one time and that many people died (they think it happened during the night because in one area that they are still excavating they found many remains of people in the houses). As a ...

... weeks previous. They found one in the Treasury, but some other 'lucky' tourist must have picked up the other. Jon and Jackson have been collecting real coins from all of the countries we have visited. It has been fun to follow them into antique shops and flea markets in search of their treasure. Later that afternoon we walked to the Temple of Athena where we found only one column left. We felt confident that we would see another temple honoring ...

... alone. And the same is blessedly true for us. We need each other. We can't walk our own way with a chip on our shoulder, we must persevere in mission and ministry side by side. We must persevere, like Paul and his companions, through financial stresses, theological debates, and aesthetic differences. We must persevere when we like each other and when we don't.<br><br>I wonder how Paul would feel knowing that there are innumerable churches ...

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The next morning, we stopped off at Troy on the way to Selcuk to check out the ruins there. Troy is the ancient city of the Trojan War, and described in the Homer's 'Iliad'. It was founded in the reign of Emperor Augustus but flourished most under Constantine, eventually declining in the Byzantine era. The ruins were pretty cool, decently impressive (as Chris would say), but not as spectacular as you might expect. What I found most impressive was the way you ...

... door was in the shop with an inexpensive phone for me to buy. Within half an hour, I had bought the phone, and it was all charged, ready for me to use. Within half an hour, I never gave my failed sim registration another thought. With my phone all fixed up, I started telling Aydin my woes about my computer, how I had lost everything, and how the frustrations with my computer had totally consumed me ever since my arrival in Turkey. Again, he made it sound so sensible and easy when ...

... their own garden." I had to point out that pretty much all of the produce we get everywhere here is organic and most of it from a garden that is at least close by. The salad, when it came, bore this notion out. The children, and the adults actually, were very pleased by the fresh, hand-cut fried potatoes. We had to order another dish of them. The Pelican restaurant where we ate had a beautiful view of the lake and the ruined church that we came to ...