Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Egridir - PART 2 and Selcuk
After days in the wilderness (well in an small town in Greece at any rate) we are finally back in internet land. Writing about Egridir now seems a bit like an after thought as we've been gone from there for such awhile, but it's nice to tie up loose ends.
Apart from getting led astray on a mountain in Egridir we also went fishing which I alluded to in the first post. This was a VERY early start (pre-7am - something I never imagined doing on my year away from work) but worth it for sun on sparkly water memories. That afternoon was market day in town so we went to explore that and spend time in an internet cafe full of 11 year olds playing video games.
After Egridir we moved on to Selcuk - getting ourselves nearer the coast in preparation for the crossing to Greece. Selcuk is famous mostly for being close to Ephesus (apparently the largest well preserved Roman town after Pompeii). Ephesus was an exercise in incorrect pronunciation (e-pheses) and admiration of mass tourism for Pete... while I tried to learn something about the city without the audio guide (they hadn't restocked the pile when we arrived - I think Pete was secretly pleased!).
Apart from getting led astray on a mountain in Egridir we also went fishing which I alluded to in the first post. This was a VERY early start (pre-7am - something I never imagined doing on my year away from work) but worth it for sun on sparkly water memories. That afternoon was market day in town so we went to explore that and spend time in an internet cafe full of 11 year olds playing video games.
After Egridir we moved on to Selcuk - getting ourselves nearer the coast in preparation for the crossing to Greece. Selcuk is famous mostly for being close to Ephesus (apparently the largest well preserved Roman town after Pompeii). Ephesus was an exercise in incorrect pronunciation (e-pheses) and admiration of mass tourism for Pete... while I tried to learn something about the city without the audio guide (they hadn't restocked the pile when we arrived - I think Pete was secretly pleased!).
// posted by courtney and pete @ 11:15 
