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What a contrast to Troy! The immediate sight is of many narrow, wonky tiled or cobbled streets passing, between very ancient,undecorated walls of buildings, reminiscent of Santorini, with hills and small flat areas but no brightly coloured walls. It's a real gem of a place. I took
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Everybody wants to see Ephesus so the restaurants quickly emptied this morning as bus after bus left the dock. We were last at No 30. This pic this morning from our balcony on the docked ship. It became very hot, even for the locals and the smooth marble flagstones on
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Apart from the Horse, shown here, which was built for the film set, the archealogical sites are a bit underwhelming, not helped by a young , male, cocky guide with no audience empathy. He couldn't get his microphone right and when asked by another person and myself what the
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Unfortunately Mary 'not fit for travel' so I joined the coach party after getting 'shore pass' for day- Viking coach number 24 I think; a huge operation, just like the Viking invasions of Britain. We visited the Blue Mosque again but it was a wholly different
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Embarking took forever--they have to be so careful that all bags get onboard and then there's immigration and in the case of cruise lines, a brand new, humungous underground corridor structure looking like long metro train tunnels before the lines go down--concrete hardly dry, about half
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A much longer itinerary today than we had imagined! Viking had about 13 large coaches ferrying people everywhere. I'd had no idea of their scale of their operation. First to Hagia Sophia mosque. We'd overlooked doing this today, so I was inapropropiately dressed and had to
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We coped very well with flights (Singapore), no delays , all on time, food very good etc.I include a pic of one of the main meals. Transfer to hotel was OK and hotel is very well appointed and with attentive staff. The area we are in is called 'Adana&
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Sydney airport today