Supposedly a shorter day, we estimated we’d be back at the hotel by 2:30, but the walk to Sirince from Ephesus took longer than expected, and we arrived there for lunch after 2:30, with a pottery shop and the folk museum still to come.   Got back to hotel at about 7, and never did get down to the beach this time.  Happened to be reading Freya Stark’s description of her explorations in Lycia in the 1950s “We could follow the route by the lake and just do it; and Araxa, a mere nothing on the map, could be glanced at in the morning as one passed. This was my mistake, for no temptation should ever persuade one, anywhere in the Levant, to try to do more than one thing in one day”

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Ephesus - Seljuk - Kusadasi - Sirince

Library of Celsus
Agora,
Library of Celsus
Library of Celsus
Restoration,
Gladiators,
Curate St,
Clay water pipes,
Artemis Temple,
Evening, beach scene, Ozcelik Hotel, Kusadasi
Beach scene, Ozcelik Hotel, Kusadasi
Card game, Srince
Bull Capitals
Odeon, old water pipes in foreground
Celsus Library, Curates Street