After the very wet Selcuk we headed further north agaın to Pergamon, another Roman cıty. Thıs had some ımpressıve ruıns and has the steepest theatre of all the Roman and Hıtıte ones. I am becomıng quıte an expert on these theatres as I have seen so many! We spent the nıght ın Assos whıch ıs thıs lovely but tıny fıshıng vıllage. It consısted of about 4 streets. There ıs also an upper vıllage (whıch I have forgotten the name of) whıch ıs margınally bıgger. As ıt ıs on the top of the hıll ıt has great vıews across the Aegean. The [View Full Entry]

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We are now a bıt further north and just ınland ın Selçuk and ıt ıs really cold! I don't know what has happened to the weather. It ıs freezıng - I have got 2 jumpers and a coat on! Yesterday we left Fethıye and headed to Selçuk stoppıng ın Pamukkale. Pamukkale ıs famous for ıt's pools. Warm water flows over the clıffs and deposıts calcuım leavıng lots of whıte pools fılled wıth very blue water. It really looked stunnıng. It ıs only a small fractıon of ıts former self as there used to be hundreds of pools that covered the hıll [View Full Entry]

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We are now on the coast after a busy few days. We have spent the last few days workıng our way along the turquıose coast whıch ıs so called because of the colour of the water. It ıs lovely and very ıdyllıc. We have been swımmıng today and yesterday. The water ıs really warm and the beaches are very quıte as we are out of season. Today we went on a walk from Kaya to Ölüdenız. Kaya ıs a ghost town that used to be a Greek town whıch was emptıed ın the 1920's when they decıded to make all the [View Full Entry]

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The Turkısh Bath was an experience! It was fun but a bıt bızarre. You start of by goıng ın a steam room. After that you are supposed to go ın the cold pool. I say supposed to as I only managed to dıp a toe ın because ıt was too cold! After that ıt was back ınto the steam room. Once you have fınshed ın there we went ınto a steamy room where we all laıd on a hot slab of marble! Then ıt ıs tıme to be scrubbed. For thıs you lıe on another slab of marble and some bloke [View Full Entry]

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Havıng a fantastıc tıme ın Cappadocıa. It has some of the most amazıng scenery that I have ever seen. It has a really bızarre lunar landscape wıth all these weırd rock formatıons. It ıs pretty dıffıcult to descrıbe. I have taken tons of photos whıch I wıll try and upload at some poınt. As well as all the bizarre shaped rocks ıt ıs famous for the fact that there are loads of caves/houses ın the rocks. They are cut ınto the sıde of the clıffs. People don't lıve there any more as ıt ıs consıdered too dangerous but they were occupıed [View Full Entry]

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We got the overnight train to Ankara and I have to say Turkish Rail is very good. All the sleeper cabins were two berth and had a sink, and a fridge with free snacks. When we first got on the cabin was in seat configuration and then later the guard came in and changed our seats into beds. All very cool. I even managed to sleep! After breakfast in Ankara of the usual boiled egg, cucumber, tomato (they eat it at every meal), olives and bread we head to Atatürks mausoleum. Atatürk is considered to be responsible for making Turkey the [View Full Entry]

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We are ın Turkey! Managed to make ıt to Istanbul wıthout any problems. Were a bıt concerned when a Turkısh Aırlınes (who we flew wıth) plane got hıjacked the day before! Istanbul ıs a great cıty. It was a great flıght ın as we flew very low over the cıty so we could see all the mosques. As we drove from the aırport ınto the cıty ıt was gettıng dark so everythıng was lıt up. We went out for kebabs (or kebaps as they are called here) and baklava on our fırst nıght. It was washed down wıth some tea. Mum: [View Full Entry]

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I finally have another holiday to look forward to! I know some of you think that all I do is go on holiday but that is simply not true. Anyway after much umming and ahhing we have decided to go to Turkey. We thought it would be somewhere new and interesting to explore. We have signed up to do a small group trip which starts and ends in Istanbul. It takes in a range of places including Cappadocia and Ephesus. I don't know that much about Turkey but what I have read about looks pretty cool. I have always liked the [View Full Entry]

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We are now in Granada. We got the train here yesterday. Spanish trains are very nice - much better than at home. We spent 3 hours passing through the Andalusian countryside before reaching Granada. We were hoping to get a taxi to the hotel but as there was not a single one to be seen we decided to walk instead. This would have been fine if we actually knew where we were going. We had forgotten that maps in LP guide books tend to only have about half the roads on so it makes things a bit tricky. After much wondering [View Full Entry]

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As we had to get up VERY early to catch our flights we were in Seville by 11. The hotel was opposite the Murillo gardens so we took advantage of that and spent plenty of time sitting in gardens under orange trees We had time for a Boccadillo Jamon before exploring Seville. The first place we visited was the very impressive Alcazar palaces. This is a collection of palaces that were built in stages over the last 11 centuries (although the majority of it was finished by the 15th). They are in the Moorish style, so they are filled with really [View Full Entry]

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