Kuşadası and Ephesus

[uzbradistan]

Back to the Greek trip, and onward to Kuşadası! This is another port town on the "Turkish Riviera"; it looked a lot like Bodrum. Unlike Bodrum, it had no major sights of its own, though it did have a picturesque castle in its harbor. I never did find out if this castle was built by the Knights Hospitaller or the Ottomans, but it certainly looked

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ampitheater

[alpine_tunnel]

*swoon*

Some day I will get to go there. One of my biggest regrets was that I didn't try harder to get some classical archaeology experience.

it was as a little like we kept visiting the same town, only the castle just kept shrinking...
That made me smile.

Re: amphitheater

[uzbradistan]

Glad you liked!

Incidentally, you can't see the sea -- or much of it, anyway -- from the amphitheater, because the mouth of the river it was on (the Little Meander, not the original Meander) silted up, thus hastening the city's decline.