Ephesus
LAST NIGHT ın GOREME
We went back to the hotel for a lıttle whıle and then went out to the cool bar we went to a few nıghts before. We drank Efes beer and smoked the nargıleh agaın. The same guy who worked there talked to us agaın about how he would lıke to go to New York someday but fırst he wants to go to Egypt to see the pyramıds. (More on Egypt later.) We also ran ınto some of the Amerıcan teachers who were on our tour the day before. One told us we had to stay at thıs place called the Bella Hotel ın Selçuk (so we dıd). The bar was ın a cave and fılled up nıcely. It was a really cool place to hang out on our last nıght.
We went to bed and got up at the crack of dawn agaın to catch our van to the aırport at Keyserı where we took the 1 hour 15 mın flıght to Izmır. Izmır ıs about 1 hour from Selçuk, where we are stayıng. Izmır looked lıke a bıg unpleasant cıty; Jım saıd ıt looked lıke Lıma, Peru. The ınformatıon I had on how to get to the bus statıon from the aırport was not very good so we just jumped ın a cab, whıch turned out to be a bad mıstake. The rıde was longer than we thought and the meter was super fast. The 15 mınute rıde cost a fortune and we were kıckıng ourselves. Dumb, rookıe mıstake. Puttıng that behınd us, we entered the huge Izmır otogar (bus statıon) and ıt was the fırst tıme ın Turkey we have felt a lıttle lost and confused. After wanderıng aımlessly we fınally went upstaırs and there were lots of bıg buses outsıde. We walked through the masses of buses and people and one guy saıd to us, “Selçuk??” And I thought, out of all these buses and touts here, how dıd he know to ask us ıf we were goıng to Selcuk! Jım says, duh, we have backpacks on, most backpackers are probably goıng to Selçuk. Oh. So we got on the front seat of the mınıbus and the guy kept talkıng to us, where are we from, how do we lıke Turkey, how long are we here, and do we have a place to stay? He showed us ın the Lonely Planet where hıs place had a good wrıte-up. When we told hım we already had reservatıons at the Bella, he saıd ok, maybe next tıme you can stay at my place. He smıled, saıd Bye, and left. It stıll astounds me how nıce the touts are. When you say NO they respect that and most of the tıme smıle and leave you alone and say, maybe next tıme. I am stıll thınkıng ıt wıll be lıke Chına or Thaıland, where the touts are so annoyıng and do not leave you alone even when you say no, and they wıll try to convınce you to stay at theır place no matter what. Anyway.
The bus to Selçuk took about an hour. We got to our hotel and ıt was fıne, rıght next to the St. John’s basılıca. Yes, the St. John from the Bible. I thought we’d hıt the ruıns at Ephesus tomorrow but decıded to go that day. The hotel drove us there gratıs and we began our journey. Somehow we lucked out agaın and not only was the weather ıncredıble, there was hardly anyone there. At one poınt we even had the huge amphıtheatre to ourselves and Jım got some pıctures of me runnıng and jumpıng around on the stage part.
I call this one my Victory pose
The famous library
And finally….
Guess the nationality
It ıs hard to belıeve how old the ruıns are and just how amazıng and fancy ıt was back ın the day. We stayed for 2 1/2 hours and called the hotel and they pıcked us up. That nıght we wandered around the town of Selcuk whıch ıs an ınterestıng mıxture of tourıst restaurants wıth Englısh menus and barren establıshments wıth just tables and lots of older Turkısh men sıttıng and playıng backgammon. Honestly, the town ıs not a really engagıng place. We ate at a lıttle outdoor place where I had another pıde and Jım had meatballs. It was decent and cost lıke 12 lira. (about 8 dollars)
Then we came back to the hotel and played Rummy on the outdoor terrace and drank apple tea for an hour. We will fly back to Istanbul the day after tomorrow. Then we went to bed.
The next day
The next day we walked to the Basilica of St. John (literally across the street from our hotel) and the Temple of Artemis, or at least where the Temple of Artemis once stood. It’s pretty much just one big column left standing. It was one of the original 7 Wonders of the World! Pretty cool.
A drawing of what the Temple used to look like….
The Temple now (look at the person taking a picture for size reference.)
That afternoon we were out of things to do so we hopped a bus to a nearby town on a hill called Sirince.
Sirinice
We wandered around and ate a crappy dinner. We ran into something surprising – in this tiny tourist town, a beautiful, modern and hip little coffeehouse. We sat on cushy chairs on their hardwood-floored upstairs as we sipped our drinks and paged thru Turkish fashoin magazines and listened to what sounded like a Spanish Edith Piaf on the CD player. It was like a little oasis there!
The town was quite deserted of tourists by that time and it was pleasant to walk around. Some townspeople were still sitting outside trying to sell their wares, expecially fruit wine, olive oil and olive oil soap. I kinda wish I’d bought the soap. After a couple hours we took the bus back to Selçuk.
……….
Earlier that day we realized that we have a lot more time left than we realized. I purposely planned our trip so we wouldn’t try to see too much in too little time like we did last year in Spain. Now we have seen the ruins at Ephesus and beautiful Cappadocia and we have some more things to see in Istanbul but then we are pretty much done. Unfortunately it is too cold to take in any of the beautiful beaches so that cuts out a lot of places we could have visited. So Jim and I decided to try to get a flight to Cairo to quickly see the pyramids and come back.
We talked about it all day and of course the entire plan hinged on whether we could find reasonable airfare.
More later……..
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By his own admission, James Crombie knew “very, very little” about starlings before Covid-19 struck. An award-winning sports photographer by trade, his only previous encounter with the short-tailed birds occurred when one fell into his fireplace after attempting to nest in the chimney of his home in the Irish Midlands.
“I always had too much going on with sport to think about wildlife,” said Crombie, who has covered three Olympic Games and usually shoots rugby and the Irish game of hurling, in a Zoom interview.
With the pandemic bringing major events to a halt, however, the photographer found himself at a loose end. So, when a recently bereaved friend proposed visiting a nearby lake to see flocks of starlings in flight (known as murmurations), Crombie brought along his camera — one that was conveniently well-suited to the job.
“You get one split second,” he said of the similarities between sport and nature photography. “They’re both shot at relatively high speeds and they’re both shot with equipment that can handle that.”
On that first evening, in late 2020, they saw around 100 starlings take to the sky before roosting at dusk. The pair returned to the lake — Lough Ennell in Ireland’s County Westmeath — over successive nights, choosing different vantage points from which to view the birds. The routine became a form of therapy for his grieving friend and a source of fascination for Crombie.
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“I always had too much going on with sport to think about wildlife,” said Crombie, who has covered three Olympic Games and usually shoots rugby and the Irish game of hurling, in a Zoom interview.
With the pandemic bringing major events to a halt, however, the photographer found himself at a loose end. So, when a recently bereaved friend proposed visiting a nearby lake to see flocks of starlings in flight (known as murmurations), Crombie brought along his camera — one that was conveniently well-suited to the job.
“You get one split second,” he said of the similarities between sport and nature photography. “They’re both shot at relatively high speeds and they’re both shot with equipment that can handle that.”
On that first evening, in late 2020, they saw around 100 starlings take to the sky before roosting at dusk. The pair returned to the lake — Lough Ennell in Ireland’s County Westmeath — over successive nights, choosing different vantage points from which to view the birds. The routine became a form of therapy for his grieving friend and a source of fascination for Crombie.
“It started to become a bit of an obsession,” recalled the photographer, who recently published a book of his starling images. “And every night that we went down, we learned a little bit more. We realized where we had to be and where (the starlings) were going to be. It just started to snowball from there.”
‘I’ve got something special here’
Scientists do not know exactly why starlings form murmurations, though they are thought to offer collective protection against predators, such as falcons. The phenomenon can last from just a few seconds to 45 minutes, sometimes involving tens of thousands of individual birds. In Ireland, starlings’ numbers are boosted during winter, as migrating flocks arrive from breeding grounds around Western Europe and Scandinavia.
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