Last weekend, our friends, Bob and Martha, loaned us their house near Gümüşluk. (Gümüşlük means silvery in Turkish.) on the Bodrum Peninsula. This southwestern part of Turkey is full of holiday resorts and villas, swelling from about 30,000 year round residents to over 1,000,000 in the summer. Winter, therefore, seemed like the perfect time for [...]
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Gümüşlük and the Bodrum Peninsula
February 3rd, 2010 2 Comments
Tags: Bodrum · Euromos · Gümüşlük · Herakleia · Lake Bafa · Turkey
Aphrodisias
November 30th, 2009 1 Comment
We stopped at Aphrodisias on our way to from Selçuk to Pamukkale. This ancient city was home to a sculpture school, so there are a lot of reliefs and statues to see. There is a pleasant central entrance area to the site that consists of gift shops, tea shops, and a very good museum. The [...]
Tags: Aphrodisias · Turkey
Priene, Miletus, and Didyma
November 29th, 2009 No Comments
We were comfortable at the Rebetika Hotel in Selçuk, so we stayed another day and night. From Selçuk, it was an easy drive to three sites. It is off-season in Turkey, and there were very few people at any of these sites. We tried to find one other site, but got lost. So we got [...]
Four things to do in Selçuk
November 28th, 2009 No Comments
Most tourists travel to Selçuk to see Ephesus, but we had been there on our trip to Turkey in 2003. This time, we wanted to see some other sights. We arrived in the afternoon and checked in at the Rebetika Hotel, almost across the street from the Isa Bey Mosque on Ayasoluk Hill. Our room [...]
Tags: Basilica of St John · Efes Museum · Isa Bey Mosque · Selçuk · Sirince · Turkey
Türkan Saylan
May 20th, 2009 1 Comment
We haven’t been in Turkey long enough to know much, so when we saw this house in Arnavutköy on Tuesday, I did a little bit of research. Türkan Saylan, who died of cancer on Monday, lived in this house on the main street in Arnavutköy. She was a doctor who devoted her career to eradicating [...]
Tags: Arnavutköy · istanbul · Türkan Saylan · Turkey
