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... final products. All in all a great educational experience.
This evening was the Captain's welcome reception. There I met Maxine, another Canadian who had thought she was the only one aboard. We enjoyed a lovely and lively dinner with new friends from LSU and Emory, followed by after dinner drinks in the bar.
Tomorrow promises to be another exciting day with our stop at Gythion, Greece to visit Mystras. Now to bed for a good night's ...
Day 240 - Sunset in Dikili
... Eli’s meal was perhaps the best yet in Turkey: Iskander Kebap. Basically beef kebap laid over bread then smothered in yoghurt and tomato sauce then garnished with a 15cm long uniquely spicy and eminently edible green pepper.
Our waiter asked us if we spoke English AFTER we said hello in Turkish and then were unable to respond to his next question. He seemed thrown off at this and recruited his colleague ...
Day 239 - The Ancient City
... eateries, although lots of shop would ‘clean’ the sidewalk or promenade outside their shops with a hose. This makes some sense and is a fairly common practice in ethnic neighbourhoods in Toronto. Having just been in Africa (and other places), where water is such a scarce resource, it seemed like an excessive indulgence.
After another bus ride we arrived in Avylik (pr. Eh-veh-lick) finding the tourist cartel catering mostly to Turks while ...
Naar de Oost
... lelijke douaniers en niet kloppende papieren. Je kan eigenlijk zeggen hoe dichter je in de buurt van een vliegveld bent hoe groter en nieuwer de yachten die je rond ziet varen en hoe meer verscholen angst onder de bemanning, vaak Duitse, of Nederlandse gepensioneerden. Op zo’n eiland als Evstratios zie je deze lui niet en lijken de zeilers die er wel zijn wat meer bestand tegen zout water, en minder angstig. 'Ja, het kan hier waaien ja, maar je moet ook varen als het ...
Ayvalık Independence Day
... that followed I was tryıng to get the goat back on ıts leadto the place where ıt should be the other goat kept tryıng to mount ıt and me and then ıt kept eatıng all the flowers ıt was too funny ın the end luckıly the man came back and they had a comedy half hour tryıng to get them back ın there own sheds.
Ian was talkıng to the men ın the bar from the ...


