Plaza Palace Hotel And Studios 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 ...

... are great.

We then went for some food ın thıs local place next door and for our fırst swım ın the sea at the nıght tıme we popped over to the bar agaın and met one of the locals hıs name ıs londıs and he has fıve chıldren all over the world and he asked Ian how many kıds he had and when he saıd none apart from my angel dan dan the man laughed and told hım wıth actıons that he had ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... executing all the adult males. Though the edit was voted down before any action was taken, the idea of Lesvos with only female inhabitants was born -- hence the term "lesbian".

This was a charming Greek island with a rich history. Lesvos was considered the very center of Greek culture and society. At one time Lesvos had many famous residents such as Aristotle and Aesop.

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 ...

... morning. One found oneself, in the wee small hours, lying in bed fully awake, tapping one's feet and wondering whether to be annoyed or grateful. Oh yes - the bloody giant white balloon appeared to change colour with the rhythm. When this experience is added to the pregnant white cat and the pink Pterodactyl it was like being in a 1960's, slightly Greek, acid trip - bizarre! Other than the night of easy listening, the stay in Skala Loutra was very relaxing. On Monday ...

... Gulf of Edremit, opposite the island of Lesbos. it was long an important city and port. The site was an impressive ones, with great views over the sea, based upon a mountain for strategical positioning of course. Was only about 5 of us checking it out so we had a quick 20 min wander around up there, most of the site had not survived the earthquake but you could still see remains of the city walls. We then checked out the mosque which was inside ...

... high and dry. By the turn of the millennium, it was nothing more than a small village surviving off of goats and olives, and now it lies three miles off a small village surviving off of tourism. Having toured to our utmost, we were famished. We hadn't really eaten anything in more than twenty four hours, and we both decided it was time to break the fast. So we returned to Selcuk to gorge ourselves on rice, bread and sprite. Not exactly traditional fare, but food we expected our ...

... got that right guys?, France, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Portugal, Malaysia, England (that's me ;)), Australia, America, and of course Turkey). We caught the luxurious Nilufer coach from Istanbul late on Friday night and said goodbye to chaotic Istanbul in search for the peaceful and beautiful Izmir. We arrived around 7am in the morning at Izmir Otogar, we were to spend some time here over the course of this weekend. On Saturday our first day we go by ...