Hotel Sema Patara

We had a heck of a rainstorm last night in Olympos; but it didn't delay the plan to travel westward on the Med. So, here we are in Kas, a beautiful quiet sleepy town with a yacht basin filled with sailboats. <br><br>The hostel is Beautiful. I think the best I have ever stayed in. And the price isn't too bad, although it is the off season. This Might be It- the place I have been looking for. But, of course, it's too early to tell.<br><br>

... and serve it up with salad, bread and rice etc etc... We had the calamari grilled and fried and it came with garlic bread and garlic sauce (lush!!). After lunch I said good bye to Tonielle as she was heading onto Konya today and I went off on further searches for the weekly market... After a good 30min walk I found an area around a long canal at the end of the harbour under a million and one white canvas circus-like-tents ...

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... even pull out their own olive oil. We feel silly cooking a meagerly Italian meal while sharing the kitchen with some real chefs. As it turns out they are totally cool and we got to know them a bit better over a bottle of wine. We exchange emails and they encouraged us to call them when we get to Naples. At least we ended the day on a high note the next day we are on a bus heading inland.

... shacks and the like.  It was only 5 YTL so we paid.   Over the next 2.5 KM we passed ruin upon ruin.  Old baths, a triumphal gate (not so triumphant in the grey rain), the remains of some temples and two theatres - one small and one magnificent.  Off-Bway and Bway.  Hugo said The Met and City Opera.  This was a city.  A fairly major one. In ancient times, the harbor came much further in but over the years, it silted up until it was useless by ...

... us our room which was okay, but clean and it had a bathroom, so that's about all that mattered. After some apples and Nescafe. Incidently, after "Merhaba" which means hello in Turkish. The next most popular sentence that Turkish people say is: "Teaappleteanescafé?" They just love to offer you tea, apple tea, and Nescafe. Everyone does.. it's very nice. Anyway, Denis then gave us the low down on things to do in and around Kas. It's a town that's been around since we were ...

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... plants, and a few large fish. Mostly it was the rock formations that were really stunning. At one point I was a few feet lower than three other divers, and I looked up towards them and the surface, with the sunlight streaming down, and their bubbles rising like glass balls... I was completely weightless, and it was so quiet....there is definitely no other feeilng like it on earth! Complete heaven. Like floating in a bubble. I ...

... taste better. Beyond that, The Temple Mount in Jerusalem was re-opened for a day last week (it has been closed to all tourists periodically because of threats by the anti-disengagement settlers to hold mass protests there), and I made it up there. I love that I am so familiar with so much of Israel, but it has been bugging me that I am yet to see many of the Christian and Muslim sites in the Holy Land. Thus, Yoni and I took the train into J-Town ...