Nur Pension Selcuk

... that it was the elderly man in the black fedora(of course!). Well, no way I was missing this photo op. I worked my way right through about six rows of secret service, smiling and apologizing and holding my camera in front of me. I got about 10 feet from him, no-one between us, and took about three good pictures. Then I hopped three rope fences to follow his entourage down to his car. Nobody stopped me. Nobody checked me. They didn't even sick the rottweiler guard ...

I felt asleep before 630 last evening, and got up at 5 this morning. What a sound sleep! And an amazing new noon arose outside my window. The prayer sound made the context really turkish. <br><br>Our lunch was at a resort with a lake. There were no other customers but us, the participants at the conference. It cost 20 lira, so maybe too expensive for local people. <br><br>Dinner was lighter, but i still couldn't finish it.

... He spoke all through the tour about the extensive history of the place with pride and passion.<br><br>The ruins are buried under layers of earth and this process whereby a thriving community gets lost over centuries by being interred is a mystery to us really. The quality of the stonework at Ephesus mirrored that we had seen in Greece and the expertise of the stone workers astonished us. Also the extent of the complex with its way down to what used to be the Aegean Sea until ...

... tradition of the villagers who inhabited the village in the 19th century, as they were descendants of the early Christian inhabitants.The house is a church nowadays, with the main altar where the kitchen was situated; the right wing was the bedroom. The site, now a national park, is a requisite stop on the itineraries of Christians, Jews, and Muslims alike, and therefore always crowded. In fact, in their religious fervor, pilgrims won't think anything of elbowing you out of the way. If ...

... she woke up she declared it the most comfortable couch in the world. Sarah sat down on it and decided Lindsey must be really tired, because the couch was little more than springs and some fabric. Then we discovered our new favorite show, a new zealand sitcom called "Outrageous Fortune" which is similar to Arrested Development but with a much trashier family.<br><br>For dinner we went back to Mehmet's shop and after dinner went again to the ANZ ...

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... spread over a large area, but those in the best shape were the amphitheatre and the library. It was nice to visit Greek ruins again on another gorgeous day. In the evening, we strolled around Selcuk, and were lured into yet another carpet store...thanks to Fiona. She couldn't resist the man's offer to see his Van cats (white cats with one blue eye and one yellow). They were pretty cool, and we did get a free apple tea out of the deal, so it wasn't so bad...no carpets though!

... so that we people can see what ýt may have looked lýke when ýt was ýn exýstence...ýnterestýngly the Austrýan government has provýded much money to do thýs work... the Ottoman Empýre stretched a long way!! We are really enjoyýng our stay here - we have two lýttle bedrooms (actually they are lýttle huts on the hýllsýde wýth a washroom ýn between - everythýng ýs whýtewashed mud and wattle walls coveýng stonework and even ancýent br ...

... am not going to go into too much detail about it all because it was a massive city, suppose to have had about 250,000 living there in 400-300BC which is huge, it was one of the biggest cities up there with Rome in its day to put it in proportion! Through the ages there have been signs off of many different races of people establishing it as there city, from Ions, Carrians to the Romans and Greeks (Alexander the Great). There are even ...