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I had been in Greece no more than an hour and here I was already at a water-side café.
Greece and Turkey, September 1994
Dougburnett2003-11-22 11:11:32
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comfortable shoes.
Seljuk, Turkey
After a couple of hours, my new acquaintances and I parted. They returned to Kusadasi and I headed on to Seljuk. I found a taxi driver - well, actually he found me - and after some heated bargaining, we agreed on a price ($3.00). Seljuk is a few miles farther up the coast and has a neat and sleepy charm - a wonderful contrast to Kusadasi. If ever I come back this way, I will stay here instead. It's home to a couple of very interesting mosques and a delightful museum. It also has a bus station - a proper station this time - where I made arraignments to go to Marmaris the next day.
In the morning, I got up early and grabbed a dolmus back to Seljuk. I hadn't actually purchased my ticket the previous day - just checked who was going and when. In Turkey there are many different companies that run buses along the same route. From Seljuk there were four companies that went to Marmaris. I didn't care which bus I took, I just wanted the next one. When the dolmus dropped me off, I started asking around. But each office claimed the next bus was due in just a few minutes. And when I went to check at the next office, a representative of the first company followed me. Soon I had four guys following me, all claiming that their bus was next and that I should hurry or I would miss it. What to do? A this point I couldn't even remember which guy was from which company - so I just picked one.
As it worked out, the bus to Marmaris didn't even stop in the station. After I laid my money down, I was escorted out to the highway to wait for the bus. And wait I did - many buses were to go by before mine arrived. My escort, who stayed with me the whole time, finally flagged one down and I jumped aboard. A feature of Turkish buses is the on-board attendant. I took the first empty seat I came to but that wasn't good enough. As we rolled along, some
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