Tourtles

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Rob went to breakfast whilst I laid in. When he got back we packed our bags which took a while because we were surprisingly spread out considering how few things we have.

We stopped at a shop owned by a friend of Jimmy's. After we bought some postcards we chatted to her for a while about traveling. I told her how I'd love to go to Iran and she listed a load of other places to go instead, all of which we had already been. Once listing all these places to visit she told us we should just go home. We both felt rather well traveled.

Until last night we had believed that we have visited St John's basilica in Sirince, but an Aussie staying at Urkmez told us that the basilica ruins were actually in Selcuk. Well we couldn't leave without seeing it, so we visited it. It was much like any other ruin except for one thing. There were tortoises everywhere. We followed a few around and tried to no avail to get them to eat from our hands. We probably could have sat in the sun playing (or tormenting) them for much longer but we had a bus to catch.

Walking to town Jimmy saw us and he came over to say bye and one last recommendation for a bakery. We bought a cheese pastry and shared it whilst walking around a sizeable market before grabbing our bags and getting on the bus.

Two Americans introduced themselves on the bus and we spent most of the journey talking to them. Like us they had been told our bus was direct with no stops. To be fair, the bus stopped way fewer times than normal ones do, but nonetheless it stopped. We pulled up at a Denizli station and we were told to change buses for one that would take us to Pamukkale. The second bus was free but we had to sit and wait for the driver to be ready and so when we finally reached Pamukkale we were almost an hour late.

Due to our late arrival there was no one to meet us at the stop and it was very dark. The town of Pamukkale is tiny and next to none of the streets are labeled although there were plenty of 'helpful' people around all knowing places to stay or eat or even bus tickets to buy. At one point two men asked us if we had a place to stay, even though we said we had they recommended a cousins place, and would not leave us. We turned our backs on them but they both moved round and stood in front of us again!

After wandering for a bit a nice guy asked us if we needed directions after telling us he said he'd nip in the car to check we got there safe; which he did and we did.

Ozturk hostel seems quite nice but we had a welcome chat and we struggled to understand him every now and again. There is a TV room but it is the family living room and they have internet but it only loads some pages and is in a freezing hut.

We walked into the town to find somewhere to eat but all the eateries were very samey. We opted for one which was ok but the food was lame and we were a bit chilly. After the meal we attempted to update our travelblog as we are over a week behind but it was one of the websites that the computer didn't like. It also blocked facebook and yahoo for writing e-mails so we couldn’t really waste much time on the internet. We decided we were both freezing anyway and so headed up to the room for a nice hot shower and early night. We did both have beautifully hot showers but the early night didn’t happen due to a very noisy wedding party that was happening over the road. Rob actually has found a book that he is enjoying so we are going to read for a while.

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Comments

[Rach]

Hey chucks, sounds like your really enjoying turkey, must say you have sold it to me, sounded poop before that. Sounds like you stayed in a really nice place. Finally extending the food habits are we? HEHEHE rob your looking very brown on some of your pictures.