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Collected from the excellent Anil hotel by Crossroads Travel and together two American guys, Dan and Jerry, we head off to the spectacular acropolis of Pergamum which is perched above Bergama and which we had been able to see clearly from our hotel room.
Our guide, Pinar, was LAN attractive young lady but fell short of the standard which had been set by Murat at Gallipoli.
Nevertheless, with a fair amount of self-help we were able to glean plenty of information on what is one of the post dramatic sites in Turkey.
Our next port of call was Asklepion, which was the first medical and healing centre in history,
Fascinating to see that so many of the principals applied so many centuries earlier are still very much part of modern-day medicine.
More than adequate served at local restaurant then the 3 hour drive to Selcuk, home of the world-famous Ephesus ruined city.
The Akay Hotel in Selcuk is one of the best of our trip with two girls at reception, Ria and Elis,who speak excellent English.
Decide to freshen up with a swim in the pool before a fine meal in the hotel restaurant. Quite apart from the quality of the food the evening was memorable for another of this blogger’s ‘ spicy food moments’. My nephew, Andy has often taken delight in my discomfort with very hot dishes but on this occasion it was Gail’s turn to be entertained when I swallowed whole a very hot green pepper which I had mistaken for a green bean! At first I think she assumed that the tears streaming down my cheeks were due to my emotional response to such a romantic dinner but when I couldn’t get any words out from my scorched throat she just cracked up. She would probably have put the fire out but had no idea of the Turkish word for fire extinguisher.
Off to bed having spent time memorizing the Turkish for ‘ very spicy’ and ‘ green pepper’

Cheers

The Obese Ferret