Izmir Princess
NarlIdere Izmir, Turkish Aegean Coast, 35331, Turkey
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Come for the Ephesus, leave for the Izmir
... fully appreciated if viewed rather than described. We were shown to our rooms as described above where we promptly got to chilling out then falling asleep.
The next morning I remember I woke up at 9:54 exactly. I brushed my teeth and lazily switched on my computer. We were to travel to the Roman ruins of Ephesus that day, so I needed to work out how to get there and what time we needed to leave at. After a few short minutes I had deduced that there were ...
Absolutely no dragons!
... through the desert, eating disgusting parts of animals and fighting the infidels.
That's above if offcourse a bad taste joke based on the stereotypes that most of Europeans and Americans have about Arabs. In reality they were real cool guys working in Damascus in some media-connected company. We went for quick sightseeing togather, after which I have visited internet cafe to write something here. We had another meeting arranged for the afternoon and I have barely made it ...
City of Izmir
... of the cafes near the waterfront. We ordered a huge beer dispenser containing 2.5 liters of Turdogh beer and an apple flavored water pipe. We ordered from the waiter who was carrying fries for fries, he thought we had already ordered it already. We said no 'this is not ours, but we want to order fries’. The waiter did not seem to understand us so he backed away. Fortunately, there was a guy in a business suit behind us kindly offered ...
Still hard work!
... up through the hills to finally cross a watershed. Again plenty of uphill and signs that the island is developing for tourism. Hard work. It now looks like the rain will blow away by the time I get there thanks to this route. The island is steep rocky and sparcely inhabited. There are abandoned farms with for sale signs too. The road goes past the first inlet and I can see without going down that there is no dock. The coast road from here develops the ...
Where Giants of Troy & Pergamum Lived and Died
... than one would ever imagine... an archeological site revealing 9 Troys, each layered on top of each other... stretching back over 5000 years to the bronze age... with Troy VII, the city of King Priam and his son's Paris and Hector and the lovely Helen... with it's destruction by Menelaus, King of Sparta... with Achilles at the forefront of the battle... All written by Homer and possibly lived by the character's that live immortally ...



