almost there!
looking out from the theater.
You can see some of the restoration process here.
more slippery steps.
This is the stage area in the front. This place is huge.
This is apparently the back door you can sneak out.
Where does it go?
Oh, it leads out to the harbor road. Ephesus used to be on the coast, apparently. Now it's 6 miles inland.
On the right is the theater gymnasium, where athletes would come to work out and practice. What was so nice about Ephesus compared to some other places we've visited in the heat of the day is that there were lots of trees that provided shade, and a light but steady breeze.
This was an incredibly cheesy 5 minute show complete with a sword fight and a stay of execution.
Turkey was much greener than I was expecting.
Can you see the water park way in the distance? (sometimes I feel like Bert pointing out imaginary things in a chalk drawing)
After our tour through Ephesus, we went back to Kusadasi (where the port was) and watched a demonstration of Turkish carpet weaving. It was amazing. This woman was so fast, and they were saying that an intricate pattern on an 8 by 10 carpet would take a few girls (boys don't do it) a couple years to finish it.
She is making a silk on silk carpet, and each of these colored threads has 300 strands.
See how there are tails left on the knots she is making? After she finishes a row (which takes a while) she uses a tool to tighten them down and then a trimmer across the front to make it even. Because it is silk, it is SO soft. And shimmery and beautiful.
They served refreshments as we watched also. A Turkish bagel (which wa nothing like a bagel, but a roll stuffed with feta; still good) and a beer or glass of wine. We think it was to help lower inhibitions so you're more likely to spend a couple thousand on a rug.
After that we were going to walk around the port a bit, but it was crazy hot and the street vendors were super aggressive, so we weren't enjoying it. Instead, we found a pier that had a Starbucks with wifi so we stopped in fr some coffee and connection to the world. Since we left Scotland, we'd been feeling pretty isolated from things like news, because we didn't understand Italian. We did get BBC and CNN on the boat, so we are at least more aware of major things happening now.
These were the directions we had to follow to connect to the internet here.
That evening, as all evenings are on the boat, was lovely. Dinner was excellent (Dane clued our table mates who were new to cruising in to the fact that, though they tell you you can order one appetizer and one entree, there are really no rules. Our table suddenly started going through much more food than 7 people really need).
When we went to get ready for our nighttime swim, we found this little guy.
The seas were pretty rough this evening. It was cool to watch the pool while we sat in the hot tub. It reminded me f the pool after the earthquake a few years ago.
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