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... and was askıng ıf they knew where he could go and watch the football as Unıted where playıng ın the champıons league and playıng a team from Istanbul so he thought that places would play ıt they told us that a bar down the road would have ıt on and ıf we lıke they would take us there thats how nıce they are honestly they cant do enough for you. Anyways ın the end we went for a dr ...

... start workıng too funny he kept walkıng past sayıng workıng workıng then he got really upset about the queen and the prınce wıllıam sayıng why they not do jobs!

We went back to our hut and the nıce man who owns ıt brought us some hot tea over and then we spent the rest of the evenıng sıttıng out talkıng to hım about Iraq he had worked there for 6 years as a welder he ıs such a lovely old ...

... few days playing cards with our fellow guests - Paul, Sally, Sam and Eleanor - hi guys and hope he rest of your trip was less strenous than that climb to Ephesus!

The weather was truly toasty which made the fact that the sea was icy a rather unexpected surprise. We'd taken a boat trip to explore some of the small islands lying off the coast and at the first swim stop we were itching to cool off in the beautifully clear blue waters - and ...

... few gay ones for good measure. The boy scouts appear to have built a trail up to the castle ruins, where the christians-muslims-pagans all spent ...

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.

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 ...

Blind luck lead us to Assos (it's in the back assos of nowhere! Boom boom), we'd been planning on travelling quite a bit further but for once our reading of scales on the map let us down and we decided to take our chances down a coast road. Thank God we did, the place is amazing, a ...

... with the remnants of their aspirations...

As I have much to complete for school work this week... and little time for frivolities, I am going to make this entry quick in words and heavy in pics... Some of the sites we enjoyed were Pergamum with numerous monuments erected to Alexander the Great for his liberation of the city by the Persian King Darius III... an ancient city adorned with Eumene's Library that rivaled the world's greatest ...

... out just to stroll through the streets and eat the inexpensive rustic food produced in the cafes. Oh yes - the views across the mountains from the cafes are bloody marvellous - we really liked Agiosos. Skala Loutra, Pregnant Cats and a White Pterodactyl On the way back we visited Kolpos Yeras which is the Greek equivalent of a Scottish sea loch. It is about 7 miles long, has a very narrow entrance which widens into a small inland sea surrounded by hills and dotted ...

... the city walls, was nothing too impressive compared to some of the ones which we had seen early doors but still worth a look. Today we were lucky as there was not loads of driving and we were back on a double seat which was always a joy. The next site this afternoon was the one i had been looking forward to the most out of all of them, the site of Troy! Ý had read books on the history, seen the hollywood movie so it was sensational to actually get a ...

... the ferry line. By 12:45 we were motoring across the mouth of the Bosphorus, just as had the thousand ships that the Greeks sent towards Troy. By 1:45 we had landed and were driving again. I stared out the window, not being able to sleep. My neighbor across the aisle, an old man with a moaning wife illuminated his watch with his lighter. It was 2:30. A short while after that I finally drifted into sleep. Then, the bus stopped and the lights came on. It was 4AM and ...