Pasiphae, Hotel Lésbos

... nk&#305;ng &#305;t &#305;ts a l&#305;ttle t&#305;ny cup of really sweet apple tea that you add extra sugar to and &#305;ts such a rush but hurts your teeth.<br><br>When we went back to the hut I was do&#305;ng some pack&#305;ng up and next m&#305;nute not&#305;ced that the goat was popp&#305;ng &#305;ts head through our door probably look&#305;ng for &#305;ts goat coat wh&#305;ch &#305;s Ians bed cover now! It had escaped &#305;mag&#305;ne the ...

... w&#305;th th&#305;s tax&#305; boy who spoke a l&#305;ttle engl&#305;sh and he reccomended a place but &#305;t was a l&#305;ttle out of our budget so we told h&#305;m we needed somewhere cheaper and he sa&#305;d he would take us to the tour&#305;st &#305;nfo off&#305;ce so off we sped &#305;n the tax&#305; w&#305;th the mus&#305;c blar&#305;ng as he had a boom box &#305;n the back ha ha he called &#305;t the n&#305;ght club tax&#305;. we got no joy at the tour&#305;st place and he ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... into a new era of unknown freedoms and change... where one can find wildflowers covering the rolling hillsides that have become the graves of many lost soldiers... <br><br>Our last stop before catching our flight home was in Izmir, the most "European" of Turkish cities... bathed in the cool breezes of the sea and surrounded by coastal mountains... displaying couples holding hands and kissing in the park... a rare scene in many parts of Islamic Turkey...

... That evening we went back to the Taverna where the cat and the Pterodactyl were cosying up to one another. Apparently they are inseparable. The cat was rubbing itself up against the bird and they eventually curled up together. Mike was suspicious about the paternity of the white cat's, soon to be born, kittens and wondered if they would actually be "Pelicats" - well it seemed hilarious after the second pint! The hotel in Skala Loutra is worth a comment or two. It ...

... only ones people have met here (so they tell us). Mia has started to speak English with a British accent! She was calling out her friend's name all over the beach and people seemed puzzled when they heard my accent! What a sponge. She's giving Sophie Greek lessons...her own way! Katie and Mack are the social animals they always are! Mack and Katie speak to store clerks and tell them our whole story, luckily for us the ...

Day 1 We arrived in Mykonos on Tuesday at 1.30PM and were taken to Sutdio Eleni appartments in Chora. The room is about a minute way from Little Venice, the bus stop, the windmills and all the shops in the "maze". We had our first souvlaki with pita, tzatziki and chips for lunch :) and caught a bus to Paradise beach. Here we found a seat near the beach at Tropicana Bar, sunbaked and ordered drinks for about 4 hours. For ...