Hotel Vicky Lésbos

... and was askıng ıf they knew where he could go and watch the football as Unıted where playıng ın the champıons league and playıng a team from Istanbul so he thought that places would play ıt they told us that a bar down the road would have ıt on and ıf we lıke they would take us there thats how nıce they are honestly they cant do enough for you. Anyways ın the end we went for a dr ...

... wıth thıs taxı boy who spoke a lıttle englısh and he reccomended a place but ıt was a lıttle out of our budget so we told hım we needed somewhere cheaper and he saıd he would take us to the tourıst ınfo offıce so off we sped ın the taxı wıth the musıc blarıng as he had a boom box ın the back ha ha he called ıt the nıght club taxı. we got no joy at the tourıst place and he ...

... 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!<br><br>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 ...

... time conquering the previous inhabitants. Hot. Did I mention that? Hot. Walked back through town, but every shop was closed for siesta.<br><br> <br><br>

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 ...

... pages of his Iliad... isolated on a patch of land inhabited by ruthless snakes and gentle hedgehogs... <br><br>Gallipoli was another site of death and destruction where Ottoman Turks fought off the invasion of British, Australian, New Zealand and French forces... a WWI battle where over 500,000 lost their lives and where the iconic Ataturk made his mark on history, to become the first leader of the Turkish Republic... dragging the old Ottoman ...

... island of Lesvos? Time to take a tour of the island....driving around we see that its covered by olive trees...with these thick, gnarly trunks that have probably been around for centuries...it seems lots of things in Greece have been around for centuries. We visit a Greek Orthodox monastery....WAY up on the hill surrounded by olive trees, clean air, great view, the aesthetics are covered... not a bad place to spend the rest of ones life, I'm ...

... hard scrabble sheep farms tucked in the arid hills. Miles of rock walls run along the crest of each ridge, old property markers for grazing rights. Now the hills are topped by 25 wind turbines, producing a large percent of the island's electricity. They were graceful and somehow seemed perfectly appropriate, a Christo type art piece. At each new village we would park on the outskirts, since the steep, narrow streets were impossible to ...

... ad thessi mikla umferd stafadi af thvi ad bru (sem la yfir veginn okkar) hafdi hrunid! Thad var aragrui af logreglubilum, grofum og verkamonnum (asamt slatta af ohorfendum) sem umluktu "slysstadinn". Stuttu eftir bruna stodvadi rutan svo. Tha vorum vid komin a einhverja ferju sem atti ad ferja okkur yfir til "meginlands" Tyrklands. Vid vorum sannkalladar hetjur! Folk horfdi a okkur med utglennt augun og sumir kloppudu og syndu okkur thumalinn ...