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Monday, Aug 22, 2005

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David Murray
2007-02-21 19:41:16

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So, we had a night bus ride. Can't say that I actually enjoyed it as it was a fucking nightmare actually. You don't really get much sleep on one of them. The seats are hard as and they only go up to about your neck. The only good thing is that they have a trolly dolly on board. Now if she was blonde with legs up to who knows where, it would be better, but we had a boy. Now his job is to look after us and feed us tea, coke and loads of water. He did his job well, but the last I remember of him, he was waking me up as we pulled into Selçuk.

Day 1

We walked into Selçuk, looking for a room. We had emailed the ANZ pension where we had stayed before, but the prices were through the roof, so we gave them the flick and settled on the All Blacks. All the boy could say to us was Sweet As. He would have put us in the Wallabies, but it was full. Such is life. As we were so fucked from the lack of sleep on the night bus, we crashed for a little while. Once up, we went to see where John the Baptist was meant to be buried. I think they must have chopped him up into little bits as I have seen so many of his graves. Back into town for a meat and egg pide then we went walking to find the carpet store we had bought off all those years back. It was gone but another one has replaced it. We were asked inside, offered tea, shown carpets, but we did not buy them. We walked on over to Artemis Temple site, but all there is left is a pillar which the Turks have put up. Besides this pillar was a man-made lake with loads of tutles/terrapins/tortoises. It was very exciting !!!!!

Day 2

After breakfast, we got a lift to Ephesus. This being the premier site of Turkey. BEfore we arrived, our driver asked us if we wanted to visit his carpet store after we had finished. Politely, I told him to fuck off. Happily, he drove on until we were at the gates. Now I had taken an official guide book from the pension, but the fucking driver ...