MAJESTY SUZER HOTEL
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Smyrna - Running on empty and a wild goose chase
Aphrodisias, Hierapolis, Ephesus...what next? How about Smyrna? We'd heard of Smyrna long before we knew of the others that we had visited these three days. Aphrodisias was in a fairly remote location, Hierapolis was on a hill outside a village and Ephesus was just a half hour's walk from a small town. But Smyrna? It is bang in the middle of Turkey's third largest city, Izmir. The scale of the site is comparatively small with just the excavated agora open for visitors. ...
Welcome to the country of the doner!
... touch of middle east that defines Turkey. You think now that the whole country is like this in a way, a really open-minded muslim and middle east culture, where the western or european influence decays as you move east in this huge nation. Heir of the Ottoman culture and society, Turkey is a modern country where the muslims values are respected, but ussually not in an extreme way. For example, girls don't ussually cover their hair, ...
Odyssey of Izmir, the birthplace of Homer, doh!!
... We found a speaking assistant in this ferry terminal who, in very good English explained that no boats sail back to Alsancak from here. We would have to sail across to Karşiyaka then change and take another boat to Alsancak via Pasaport.
‘How much is that?’ I asked.
’10 Lira and 50 kuruş’ came the reply (pronounced koorush).
Giving here a 20 lira note I said (and I don’t know why as I didn’t know what ...
Exploring Ancient Pergamum & Ephesus
... Bible in the book of Revelation as one of the seven churches to which John addressed his book. The group of Christians there received both commendations for their faithfulness to the point of martyrdom, and condemnation for allowing members of their community to blend their Christian beliefs with the sexual permissiveness required in the practice of the local pagan religious practices.
About 200 kilometers to the south of ...
Day 13: A Very Weird Guy
Had breakfast as is the usual now. The places we are staying seem more like bed and breakfasts then hostels really. We then headed to get out bus to Izmir. When we got into the bus station at Izmir we were lucky that we had asked someone earlier and they told us where we could get the free bus into the centre of town as we had no clue where to go for it.
When we got into the centre, we headed to a hotel that Céin had found in his lonely planet. When ...