Day 6, Wednesday 14 May
Slept mostly ok. We found a whole heap of niggling issues with this hotel. Nothing particularly major but enough to make you wonder if they know how to run a hotel. Things like no tissues in the room, no guest information book, nowhere to hang up towels. Also the toilet paper is practically unreachable, so we're using a roll just sitting on the sink. And there's no topsheet, just a rather rough blanket. Weird.
I'm definitely sick too which sux. Runny nose this morning. Yay.
Our main event of the day was going to Ephesus. This place was quite crowded - we have been totally spoilt by places like Laodicea which are just as good but deserted. Ephesus did have some cool things like the intact latrine, the Celsus Library, and the theatre mentioned in Acts 19.
Ege Menderes Tatil Köyü near KuÅŸadası
Baths of Varius
Basilica Stoa
Photo by Mum
Colonnaded street in Ephesus
Bouleuterion in Ephesus
Rhodian Peristyle in Ephesus
The Memmius Monument in Ephesus
Restored arch in Ephesus
The Temple of Domitian in Ephesus
Colonnaded street in Ephesus
Courtyard mosaics in Ephesus
Photo by Mum
Archway in Ephesus
Terrace houses in Ephesus
Latrine in Ephesus
Hadrian's Gate in Ephesus
Celsus Library in Ephesus
Celsus Library in Ephesus
Statue in the Celsus Library
Celsus Library in Ephesus
Celsus Library in Ephesus
Celsus Library in Ephesus
Celsus Library in Ephesus
Side of the Agora in Ephesus
Colonnaded street in Ephesus
Agora in Ephesus
The Great Theatre in Ephesus
The Great Theatre in Ephesus
The Arcadiane. This road used to lead to the waterfront
Hellenistic Fountain House
The Great Theatre in Ephesus
The Church of Mary
Baptisterium in the Church of Mary
The Church of Mary
It was late morning by now, so we headed out to have lunch in a very pleasant setting among the trees behind a weaving school.
We had lunch in this lovely setting behind the weaving school
After lunch we were shown many hand-woven Turkish rugs. Some of them, especially the all silk ones were beautiful, but I didn't see any that would have any practical use at home.
Weaving rugs
Extracting silk from silk worm cocoons
Rugs for sale
Intricate rug of The Last Supper
Then we went back and looked through the Basilica of St John.
Entrance gate to the Basilica of St John
Basilica of St John
View to the (ancient) sea from the Basilica of St John
Basilica of St John
Basilica of St John
St John's tomb
Treasury in the Basilica of St John
Baptistry in the Basilica of St John
Photo by Mum
Model of St John Church
Basilica of St John
Basilica of St John
And back to the hotel by 4pm. I would loved to have chillaxed by the pool with a glass of bubbly, but instead came up to download photos, blog, and I still need to wash my undies. Boring. Still, it's still an hour and a half to dinner, there might still be time.
So I did end up going down for some wine before dinner. Nothing particularly inspiring at dinner, then came back to the room and went to bed.
Sunset and view of the clouds from the hotel
Oh, and I went to reception to ask for tissues, on account of this room not having any, and they went .. er.. no tissues.. They sent me to the bar and the dude went into the restaurant to get some serviettes. I'm not sure they're any better than the toilet paper actually.
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