Madona Hotel Lésbos

... nk there and they had got a tv out of the back room and set ıt all up wıth the satılıte and put on the football just for Ian so we sat and watched that wıth them Ian had a Rakı whıch ıs the tradıtıonal turkısh mens drınk ıts terrıble lıke Ouzo and Pastıche and he was so drunk after ıt fallıng over and snorıng wıth the party popper noıces agaın.

... are great. <br><br>We then went for some food &#305;n th&#305;s local place next door and for our f&#305;rst sw&#305;m &#305;n the sea at the n&#305;ght t&#305;me we popped over to the bar aga&#305;n and met one of the locals h&#305;s name &#305;s lond&#305;s and he has f&#305;ve ch&#305;ldren all over the world and he asked Ian how many k&#305;ds he had and when he sa&#305;d none apart from my angel dan dan the man laughed and told h&#305;m w&#305;th act&#305;ons that he had ...

... off we certainly did - it was Baltic!<br><br>Another favourite stop became the covered market where during our stay we bought a 5 lira (£2) bottle of wine (not recommended!), admired the tomato wearing watermelons and enjoyed numerous cups of cay and bakery products - the guys there were so friendly they even gave us figs to accompany our beverages!<br><br>We really had to drag ourselves away from Ayvalik but our first ruins were calling...<br><br>

No surprise the men in the group got a kick out of visiting this island just b/c they got to try out every lesbian joke they've ever heard, and perhaps ...

According to the poet Homer Lesvos (aka Lesbos or Mytlini) was part of King Makaras Empire and many of the islands ancient cities were names after his daughters.<br><br>The people of Lesvos we forced into several wars as Persia, Athens and Sparta later ruled in succession. According to legend, when Lesvos finally succumbed to Athens, the Athenian council voted to castigate islanders ...

... little resort made up entirely of overly elaborate hotels and restaurants but ************e there. We found an idyllic campsite overlooking Lesbos with it's own jetty. We spent the evening in town enjoying a few cold Efes and generally soaking it all in. All in all a pretty good find.

... to be visitors berths, was full of wee local boats. A South African yottie told us to go to the North Quay where we could tie up. 5 minutes later we were approaching this wall when the same South African was waiting to take our lines, he had cycled right round the harbour just to help. We were grateful for his assistance as a nasty westerly wind comes round the headland and catches the boat beam on as one approaches the quay. This wind gave us plenty of excitement ...

... farm resource) and a couple of small, stone house villages, then down a very narrow, only just paved, extremely winding road, with spectacular views out across the blue, blue Aegean and over to Lesvos only a few kms off the Turkish coast. We arrived at the pension, plonked ourselves down in the comfy chairs on the sheltered patio right on the sea with a couple of beers to watch the sun go down and promptly decided to stay 2 nights, not the ...

... universally recognized gesture for leaky bowels? Thankfully, at that very instant, the bus driver slowed the bus and pulled it to the side of the road, and we were both off in a flash, running to the best of our abilities. Unfortunately, a stumbling drunk made it to the bathroom a split second earlier than Steve (a weird coincidence he was even there, since it was three in the morning by that point), and Steve was thus forced to wait for another two agonizing minutes. We'll spare ...

... realized that the column was the remains of the temple of Artemis at Ephesus. At one time it was part of a temple stretching some 350ft by 150ft and filled with some 350 columns. It was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The depiction of it in the book was impressive, but the remaining column left some doubt. I suppose that it, and the five other wonders were either not built as well as, or not located in a stable enough land as the pyramids at Giza. That ...