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I was horrified when I realized my long fingernails are inconducive to pottery making!!
A pottery factory of 6 generations.
Can you see 2 birds kissing and Napolean’s hat?
Can you see a bird’s head? I was a RREEEEAAAAAL stretch of the imagination. Gigi let us go again an we didn’t stop until we got to the top. The sign said do not climb — thank goodness it was written in the Turkish language, which we cannot read. It was just solid rock.
Walked down hill to town and had this great meal. There was hummus, tzatziki, and the red was tomato paste, sweet red pepper and ground nuts. m-m-m.
Interesting parts of the town.
Pitiful photo of a sunrise inside a plane with very dirty windows. Probably the drone-view of Istanbul. We missed the flight we were supposed to catch and didn’t get to our Bodrum hotel until after dark.
Our room was great and the sound of waves was Heavenly when we arrived. The water was right below me.
It’s the Agean Sea. People at dinner until well after 10 PM.
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I love a hotel bathroom with a huge plate glass window to the room. I understand the need for privacy if you are sharing a room, but when I’m alone, I open it up.
This is in Ephesus where the Virgin Mary supposedly lived out her last years. Liz said she could SMELL that the place was special. Leyla told us the same thing.
No photos inside the small house. But there were roseries in a case personally delivered by two different popes and a gift from another Pope. Pope Frances was slated to visit this May, but passed away before he could. The new Pope Leo is trying to keep Frances’s schedule and will come here sometime this year.
Too funny. Even the Virgin Mary gets into selling to the tourists.
The wall was full of little papers with wishes and prayers on them. Some people used their plane boarding passes, or napkins, etc.
The Artemission Temple ruins.
Note the pipes that fit together. They had running water and sewers. When one would get clogged, they whacked a hole in the top, cleaned it out and put a rock on top of the hole. I used to do that with my sewers –and I’d cut the pipe open and then cut a tin can and wrap it around the pipe.
There were many centuries of rock and marble. It would be reused when there was a fire or earthquake. The mosaic floors survived, since a layer of dirt would fall due to an earthquake or land slide and preserve the tiles.
Toilets, in ancient times. No privacy. It would be cold in the winter and the rich men would have their slaves sit on the toilet first, to warm it up. Privilege!!
Terrace houses that have been dug out to discover how the rich people lived. There were two houses next to each other.
This was the Bibliotheca (library). It wasn’t to lend books, but to keep safe important books like the bible and The Iliad and the Odyssey. Scribes would write a second copy of the original and retain them in this building.
You realize how small you are next to something like this.
My artsy photo,
This was their yard sale area, in the old days.
Ampitheater. So impressive. They housed 10% of their cities population, so it was easy to calculate the population. However, they did not count slaves nor women in their census. Sheesh.
Stopped at another mosque, church and castle and I was more interested in the stork nest on the top of the column.
And then we saw FLAMINGOES!! We made such a fuss that our driver stopped the car and backed up down a two-lane road and parked in the middle of the lane so that we could get some pictures. There were several irate honks while we did so.
Bikers!! PTSD from my death-defying mountain bike trail trip in New Zealand. I have since sold both my and my dad’s bikes.
Here’s what a five buck tip gets you from your housekeeper. The blue and purple was my own stuff!
THIS IS THE LIFE! The pool was beautiful and the Agean Sea the same.
The mountains in the background were always in a fog. We were told it was from the minerals of the mineral springs.
I will, SOME DAY, make a mosaic like this.
Turkish wine overlooking the sea and a fabulous dinner.