The day was a full one and it is getting to the hour that we had better start looking for our next “camp-site”. Ralph and Susan from Calgary has emailed us about a campground that they stayed in at Kuºadasi which was about 35 minutes away. It was about 3:30pm then, and the sun just doesn’t last too long this time of year. As we pulled into Kuºadasi, we were surprised as to it’s size. Finding that campground just could be a bigger challenge that I had wanted for the first day out. According to them and our book, it was about 1 km north of the marina, now to find the marina. We took a left…after about 20 minutes, we found we were wrong on that decision, so back to that same intersection and go right. As luck would have it, we did find a campground and just as it was getting dusk, we were able to plug in. After setting up we walked into town and went looking for something to eat. Today was a GREAT DAY, and it continued through dinner. We had a wonderful Turkish dinner and it didn’t cost us an arm and a leg either. The atmosphere was good, service wonderful and the food…wow…
Priene…an important city from 300 BC. It was definitely smaller than Miletus (Milet) and it didn’t have the importance of Miletus either. The advantage to this was, the buildings did not vanish beneath the newer Roman ones. Of the buildings that remain, the 5 standing columns of the Temple of Athena, designed by Pythius of Halicarnassus. The Priene site sits high on a hill looking out over the flat plains which once were the back waters for Miletus and are now plowed fields of agriculture and the Aegean Sea far off in the distance. The Priene is interesting, but what will probably stick with me most, is the setting of the ruins beneath the steep Mt. Mykale and, the finely carved front row seats for VIP’s in the Grand Theatre. Who else in history sat right there in that very seat that I just sat in ???? By the way, it was still warm…
The day was a full one and it is getting to the hour that we had better start looking for our next “camp-site”. Ralph and Susan from Calgary has emailed us about a campground that they stayed in at Kuºadasi which was about 35 minutes away. It was about 3:30pm then, and the sun just doesn’t last too long this time of year. As we pulled into Kuºadasi, we were surprised as to it’s size. Finding that campground just could be a bigger challenge that I had wanted for the first day out. According to them and our book, it was about 1 km north of the marina, now to find the marina. We took a left…after about 20 minutes, we found we were wrong on that decision, so back to that same intersection and go right. As luck would have it, we did find a campground and just as it was getting dusk, we were able to plug in. After setting up we walked into town and went looking for something to eat. Today was a GREAT DAY, and it continued through dinner. We had a wonderful Turkish dinner and it didn’t cost us an arm and a leg either. The atmosphere was good, service wonderful and the food…wow…
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