Tropical Da Bahia 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 ...

... 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".<br><br>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.<br>

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 ...

... 50 yds downwind of the outlet. Sitting on the boat we decided to be very British and stoical about the whole thing. This took some doing as the smell could have dropped a donkey at 100 yards. Still all things come to pass and the colour of the water cleared back to blue and the smell dissipated. It did however make lunch a less than appetising affair. The following morning we got up before the crack of dawn and left at about 05.30 for Khios. The journey involved ...

... and finally arrived at the park that marks the battlefields on the lower half of the peninsular around noon. I hadn't realised how important the Gallipoli battles are for the Turkish people (they call it the Canakkale Battles) - but this is where they forged their identity as a Turkish nation, not as just part of the much wider Ottoman Empire. So the Turkish monuments became an important part of our visit as much as the NZ and Australian ones ...

... prior to take-off, and they will wake you and shake you at your stop to make sure you disembark at the right place. It comes in handy because it saves us a lot of annoying inquiries wherein we demand, in question form, whether we've arrived at our destination by repeating the name of said destination over and over. But perhaps we are most grateful for the particular bus crew we had on this last overnight (awful) bus journey. Steve had been experiencing gastro-intestinal ...

... care of Mary, as she was "his mother as well." After that, John and Mary moved to the area that is now Selcuk. Mary lived in the hills around the city, and John founded the Baptistery where his tomb is now. Walking through the ruins I was impressed by its importance in Christian history. Here is the final resting place of St. John and a site where Mary had lived as well. Not only had these two had such close relationships to J.C. himself, but by some theories, in ...