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Assos Hunters Hotel

KadIrga Koyu, Behramkale Assos Assos, Canakkale, Turkey

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Day 239 - The Ancient City

A travel blog entry by craigadventure

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... lure certainly worked on us as the soft bluish light and spritely lounge music drew us in. A young man served us with a polished flair for service and polite quality English. His recommended dish was well received: çitir manti is basically fried dumplings on cool (and delicious) yogurt topped with warm tomato sauce.

Saying goodnight to our congenial host, we stepped into the past for a few minutes as we strolled up the quiet cobblestone alleyways to our Pansiyon. ...

No Seriously, Everything Really is Beautiful!

A travel blog entry by hmocha

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... with controls that looked like a video game, not a big ship wheel) to the Island. When we docked, we all got back in the bus and drove around for about 20 minutes until we got to our first stop, a cliff/beach along the ocean. I can't even begin to describe the colors of this water. I've not seen anything like it before! I hope my photos accurately depict how beautiful it was there! After this we stopped at another cliff, higher above ...

I guess it was a short day! :)

A travel blog entry by hmocha

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... birth. Their justification for this was that they have the same name (Semih). After a little while, Tugay's other friend Nur came, who I hadn't met yet and although she doesn't speak any English, we went swimming together. After our swim we sunbathed for a little while and then decided to head back to the house. Somehow, it was already 5pm. I've literally lost all concept of time here, it's wonderful! After we got back to the house, we decided to go into town to a little. ...

Everything is Beautiful!

A travel blog entry by hmocha

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... awfully, the language.
Anyway, after we ate (it was a very weird time, like 4:30 or 5pm) we waited around for the sun to go down before going to town. As I've mentioned, it's very hot here (on top of which Tugay has solar allergies) so going to town in the daylight doesn't sound so appealing. At 8pm, we headed to the shuttle bus (it was just me and Tugay) and took the forty five minute trip into town. When we finally arrived, our first stop was the grocery store, which ...

A Landmark Day for Me!

A travel blog entry by hmocha

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... Turkish Coffee (which he sweetened for me!) and I didn’t know that I wasn’t supposed to drink the powder at the bottom so I did, which meant that Ayşegül couldn’t read my fortune (oops!). Soon, Ayşegül left but we decided we would go to a bar in town later, where there was live music. I realized then, that Tugay’s parents returned and his mother made an amazing meal of soup, roasted chicken, rice and roasted veggies. Tugay’s ...