Panselinos Hotel Lésbos

... went for lunch. Gettıng addıcted to Pıda ıts a turkısh style pızza a bıt lıke a folded garlıc bread wıth cheese but no garlıc ıts tasty.

We decıded to go to the beach as the weather ıs amazıng and we do have a beach all to ourselves back at the goat shed so got taxı back and chılled and swam and had some turkısh tea both me and Ian can not stop dr ...

... Englısh as we are not really on a tourıst route but we made ıt ınto town and the bus dropped us at a taxı place. We had not booked anywhere to stay as we had rowed a lıttle about where we where goıng I wanted a hotel wıth swımmıng pool as the weather ıs great but Ian wanted thıs tradıtıonal pensıon so we decıded to take a rısk and not book anythıng untıl we got here.....

Anyways we ...

... 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 ...

... 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.

... description than one would ever imagine... an archeological site revealing 9 Troys, each layered on top of each other... stretching back over 5000 years to the bronze age... with Troy VII, the city of King Priam and his son's Paris and Hector and the lovely Helen... with it's destruction by Menelaus, King of Sparta... with Achilles at the forefront of the battle... All written by Homer and possibly lived by the character's that live immortally ...

... evening fell asleep in a third story window, tumbling out to the ground. Paul recognized that the lad wasn't dead, and got credited with performing a miracle--cited above, "the raising of Eutychus.

Alexandria Troas was also considered by Constantine to have become the new Rome. But the Big C. chose Byzantium (Constantinople/Istanbul) instead. Now you would hardly know so few and, well, basically miserable are the remains.
Akçakeçili, Çanakkale Province, Turkey oldrover

... we'd originally planned! The pension is not flash - there are 15 apartment rooms, sparsely but adequately furnished, each with their own bathroom (with hot water - eventually!). But the price is good and it included breakfast and a fantastic dinner - which would have cost us close to the price of the room itself in Istanbul! And the views are fantastic! And we are the only people here!!!! Only downside is no internet, so you won't be reading this for a while...

... sket, andet end en masse forskellige gaester. Det er virkelig vildt saa forskellige gaester er!! I gaar havde jeg de indtil videre mest ubehagelige gaester, som talte virkelig ubehagelig og nedladende til en og slet ikke ville hoere paa hvad jeg proevede at forklare dem, foerst da min chef talte med dem var alt godt!! Og saadan gaeste er det nogle stykker af!! Og samtidig er der ogsaa gaester som man oenskede aldrig tog hjem, som bare er saa ...