For those of you who follow my travel blog entries, I finally finished captioning and editing my Turkey photos from my trip last May. ::embarrassed cough
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Sadly, the company name on the vending machine was a tease. They had no beer, only soft drinks and coffee drinks. In recent years, most of the beer and booze vending machines have disappeared from outside locations, due to increasing public pressure about making alcohol available to minors.
However, there *was* a vending machine with alcholic beverages (these fruit-soda things called Chu-hai, in grape, green apple, pear, and watermelon) inside the B&B.
quite a few 'biblical' cities in turkey. it is amazing that they live their everyday lives among ancient ruins, park their cars next to grecian and roman columns-- how deep were the roman baths, they couldn't have been much more than a couple feet? and the privy looked like it could have been in any modern structure (sans the gutters).
i am fascinated by the ancient and always try to picture things as they were.
thank you so much for sharing and i will eagerly anticipate the rest of them, gin
Thanks! I'm a huge buff of ancient history, especially Roman history, and I was in absolute geek heaven on the archaeological tour.
The Roman baths varied in depth from about 2 feet to about 5 feet deep. What was fascinating is that the modern Turkish baths are a direct descendant of the Roman baths via Byzantium. They're very similar to the Japanese onsen, as well.
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However, there *was* a vending machine with alcholic beverages (these fruit-soda things called Chu-hai, in grape, green apple, pear, and watermelon) inside the B&B.
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quite a few 'biblical' cities in turkey. it is amazing that they live their everyday lives among ancient ruins, park their cars next to grecian and roman columns-- how deep were the roman baths, they couldn't have been much more than a couple feet? and the privy looked like it could have been in any modern structure (sans the gutters).
i am fascinated by the ancient and always try to picture things as they were.
thank you so much for sharing and i will eagerly anticipate the rest of them,
gin
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The Roman baths varied in depth from about 2 feet to about 5 feet deep. What was fascinating is that the modern Turkish baths are a direct descendant of the Roman baths via Byzantium. They're very similar to the Japanese onsen, as well.
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