Hotel Nilya Selcuk
1051 Sok. 7 Selcuk, Izmir, Turkey
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Turkish Shave and Ancient Ruins
... a campfire at our hostel. We sat there with the hostel owners and the other Canadians just talking for a few hours while enjoying a few beers. This is one thing we love about travelling, it is so nice to meet other people and talk about experiences. We also love hearing about other cultures and ways of life, it is so mind opening and really broadens your perspective on life.
We spent the last day doing a 3 hour hike to the top of the mountain. The ...
Eros, boobs and phallus.
... at the Vatican, and they're not bad at stealing people's innocence either. Controversial, yes. Ephesus has another link with Christianity - St John and the Virgin Mary hung out here from 37 to 48 AD, though quite what they were doing here together, and whether she left a virgin is unclear. The stunning village at Ephesus was probably a sweet little getaway to enjoy a holiday fling. After slipping and sliding all over the ...
Ephesus
... may have had something to do with it.) 5 minutes later it was done and dusted.
Or so we thought. We were shown the sale rooms - a bit like the Dragon's Den, where the hard sale began. A few fellow travellers were not impressed, especially the loud American, who became increasingly irate, and determined not to enjoy the moment. But not the Lloyds, who were soon seen parading in front of the mirrors wrapped in every conceivable shape and colour of dead ...
Adventure...
... google maps and check the route from Çanakkale to Ayvalik. But things are rarely as straightforward as the line drawn on a map, are they?
We left Çanakkale at about 10 o'clock, and we headed for Troia. Troy! Helen of Troy. The Trojan Horse. Homer, the Illiad, the Odyssey. The whole incredible wonderful mythological ball of wax.
On the way there, we met three pretty cool bikers from Poland. I think it might have been a father and his two sons. We chatted at ...
Pamukkale and hot springs
... back to Turkey. This village in contrast to the earlier one we visited, had been repopulated by Turks. It is now a tourist trap,full of wine tastings, restaurants and shops. Lovely to look at but somewhat tedious in parts. I did taste a strawberry wine that tasted just like cough syrup, thick and sweet.
Finally on to our hotel, the Hotel Kale Han, quite nice and very comfortable. Showers tend to be a bit tricky but all in all very ...



