Tue Jul 22 - day 10
Travel day. Expected 3 hour bus ride from Pamakkale to Selcuk that actually took 6 hours. Long morning.
Solomon, our friendly hotel proprietor, gives the comprehensive rooftop tour of Selcuk and Ephesus. Then prepares our scrumptious lunch of mezes (Turkish tapas).
We walk through the ruins of the Church of St. John, named such as he apparently wrote his gospel and died looking after Jesus mother here.
Wed Jul 23 - day 11
Early morning excursion to Ephesus to beat the tour crowds. Do all tour guides talk so obnoxiously loud?
Trajan rules the round world. Hadrian rules the free world with an arch. The wisdom of Celsus archived not in scrolls but books. Randall and Sherisse promenaded the Hercules gate onto the sacred way. It's like the Disney Land of ancient ruins. Sherisse brings Ephesus to her grade 8's in her selfies of Rome tour.
Randall gets reprimanded by grumpy tour guide for testing out the ancient Ephesian latrines. There was a cat doing the same.
Spent the afternoon playing in the waves of the Agean sea at Pamacak beach. Palm trees are better than Randall's beach umbrella.
Deeeelicious dinner at Walabee's Aqueduct Restaurant. Order the "surpise dinner" and they choose for you.
The lonely planet book was used as a weapon against cats three times during dinner so Sherisse only had to leap from her chair twice. She didn't fall into the fountain but it was close.
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