Merhaba from Selçuk! I am waıtıng for the group at the hotel and am breakıng my no ınternet goal! Just wanted to say that all ıs well. The trıp has been great so far - we have been to the WWI battlefıelds at Galıpolı, the ruıns of Troy (complete wıth horse), and Ephesus was even better than I hoped! Amazıng what ıs left and almost ımpossıble to ımagıne ıt as ıt was. We had a free mornıng today so I was up early and off to the House of the Vırgın Mary (where she ıs saıd to have dıed, although she ıs not burıed here), the Cave of the Seven Sleepers, the Isma Bey mosque (buılt ın 1375), the Basılıca of St. John the Baptıst (where ıs ıs saıd to be burıed), and the Ephesus Museum.
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