Plaza Palace Hotel Lésbos

Got up and got a dolmus to the centre and had a walk around had to vısıt the pharmacy as not really well but after takıng some pılls felt a bıt more comfortable and had a wander round. Today ıs a holıday ın Ayvalık as ıts the day that they became ındependent from Greece and took theır town back not a very nıce story but they stıll celebrate ıt. Bought Danıelle a present ...

... 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 ...

After another multi-vehicle trip involving a minibus, ferry, minibus, ferry, bus and finally another minibus we arrived in Ayvalik - a lovely harbour town backed by old Greek stone houses built into the steep hills.

This time the climb to find a room was worth it as we tracked down a lovely guesthouse right at the top of a narrow alley with fabulous views down to the mosque and waterfront. Many an hour was spent on the roof terrace over the ...

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.

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 ...

Spring Break arrived and we decided to take a quick 50 minute flight to Izmir on the Aegean Coast... rent a car and drive up the coastline to Troy... enjoying a few sights along the way. As I have mentioned so many times before, Turkey is endowed with massive historical sights protruding throughout the country's landscape... A land that has been tread and transformed by many historical "Giants"... The stretch of the country that we took in is ...

... ferry terminal. It has a new marina seemingly only large Greek-registered boats can use it. The rest of us have to use the noisy, crowded and slightly smelly inner harbour. After mooring up and completing the formalities with the port police we headed into town. The town really does hustle and bustle. There is traffic everywhere, pedestrians rush around as if this were rush hour Tokyo, even the cats have a hunted look about them. We did our shopping, had an ...

... the bus driver in her best Turkish to pull over at a restroom (although the side of the road would've done, too), and the waiter by his side assured her in pantomime that we would be pulling over soon enough. But fifteen minutes passed, and no rest stop was in the offing. So Cori got up once again and charaded to the waiter the universal sign for vomit. Obligingly, he pulled out a plastic bag and offered it up to her! No, that won't do at all, Cori thought, and what is the ...

... 250 and 300 thousand people, making it what would have been the third largest city of the time. Before it was silted in, there was a water inlet from the sea, and a harbor at the end of town. We entered at Harbor St.; a grand white marble avenue lived with columns and spaces for vending stalls along its sides. There were two small indented lines running down its center, carved by chariots as they ran from the merchant's ships into the town center. Harbor Street ...