Well, my trip is almost over and I haven't finished my blogs! Sorry I kinda got blogged down. Travel plans made my timing very hard to get this done. Anyways, since I last posted anything I have visited several wonderful sites. I spent time at Pamukkale, Aphrodisias, Ephesus, Artemis Temple, Pergamum and now am back in Istanbul for a couple of days before returning home. I drove my rental car from Fethiye to Pamukkale and spent a day there visitng ruins in the rain. Then onto Selcuk, a lovely little village right outside of Ephesus. Ephesus is magnificent and is where the Celsius Library can be found. Being a library fan, I really enjoyed this site. The history is amazing, all of these places are far older than our country is. So much of what ... read more

These past couple of days have been so lazy, didn't have much to write about. Hard to say more about lying on the beach or around the pool than just that. However, I did get about 1oo mozzie bites on my legs the first nite in Cirali, didn't feel them at all until the itching started. Kept me awake haldf the nite. Mozzie is the British term and I do believe I will be quite British speaking by the time I return home. I am now calling them tomaaatoes rather than tomatoes, saying that was a lovely lunch, the wine was quite lovely and put my jumper in the boot!(jacket in the trunk). I toally relaxed in Cirali and did absolutely nothing worthwhile. I did meet Carrie there, she is the owner of the hotel I ... read more

Another great day! this time I hired a private driver/guide. He was a nice man named Adam, at least that is the English version. He spoke pretty good English. I went to the Goreme Open Air Museum first. Lots of walking, hiking, treking, whatever you want to call that exhausting stuff! Many steps again and stooping to get into the caves. But mostly worth it. Saw several more churches with the original frescoes that were painted directly onto the rock face of the cave by the early Christains in hiding. Some of them had the faces defaced; later inhabitants believed that it was bad luck to have faces on pictures indoors. Amazing to think that people lived in these caves, cooked, slept, made love, had children and died and were even buried in the caves. I ... read more

HI all, Today is Sunday and I am now in Ankara. I got here late last nite, about 10p after a long bus ride from Safranbolu. I will tell you about Safranbolu first since I didn't have access to internet there. Its a very old town, with many restored buildings that are hundreds of yrs old, I guess most of them about 200, Much older than anything in OHIO. Anyways, its a fascinating village and they have a market on Saturday which I got to visit. And shop at! Lots of produce with tomatoes, corn, peppers, cucumbers, olives, spices, squash, melons, beans, rice, shoes, clothing, souvenirs and just junk. Lots of Turkish peole doing their marketing for the produce too. Of course I had to buy a few things. I had lunch at a tiny place ... read more

Well, I kinda messed up the last entry, should have saved it and added my photos then, but I published it. So now I have to write something else so I can add photos! So here is the something else I had to write...nothing else much to say. They are playing good music here at Starbucks and the male scenery is pretty good! OK-enough. I am going to try to add some photos so i know how to do it.... read more