Kyparisis Beach Houses 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 ...

We left at about 10 &#305;ts been great just ch&#305;ll&#305;ng out for a couple of days &#305;n th&#305;s l&#305;ttle f&#305;sh&#305;ng v&#305;llage but glad to be on the road aga&#305;n. We got the bus to Ayval&#305;c wh&#305;ch took us a l&#305;ttle longer than we thought &#305;t would and we got dropped off at a serv&#305;ce stat&#305;on &#305;n the m&#305;ddle of no where and had to wa&#305;t for a l&#305;ttle m&#305;n&#305; bus to come and p&#305;ck us up. No one really speaks ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... the smallish Roman theatre where St. John preached on his way along the coast... and also where Carsten and Aidan sang and put on performances for Mom and Dad as we hung out on the half moon marble seating... <br><br>The very tiny village of Babakale, with the last Ottoman Turk fortress was built to fight off invading pirates... and where the locals graze their endless herds of sheep and goats on the green hillsides... <br><br>Troy... needing ...

... cold, the rain sends a chill through your bones. I'd like to visit Eressus, the birthplace of Sappho, and the petrified forest on the west side of the island as well as the little towns tucked into crevices around the island. But when I go to rent the car and inquire as to the schedule of boats to Turkey for our eventual exodus, I hear that phrase that sounds like a bad joke...you can't get there from here...it's winter...no you can't fly ...

... and locate the old buildings amidst the rose garden, only to find no one around to bring the key and let you in. Other times you drive up a twisty road with sheer drops to the mountain top and find monks cooking lunch. Moni Ypsilou in western Lesvos would be a good place to be a monk. Panoramic views of the bare western hills pierced with jagged volcanic teeth, olive plantations at a distance buried deep in volcanic ravines, mist from ...

... reyna ad finna rett herbergi! Allt i einu kemur til okkar kall segir eitthvad a Tyrknesku, tekur svo af okkur pokana og hendir inn i einhverja rutu. A medan hann er ad thvi kemur annar kall i jakkafotum, tekur af okkur midana og labbar i burtu. Výd aetlum tha inn i rutuna en thar er okkur tjad ad vid thurfum mida! Einkennilegt glott starfsmanna thessarar stodvar veitti manni tho sma tilfinningu um ad thetta vaeri alveg edlileg atburdaras og innan ...