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The Trip....Back into Europe
India to UK and here are the closing shots as I came through Eastern Europe....
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It eats bees and is called a Bee-eater - Genius!
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Ancient ruins high in the hills.
Themoses (i think) hehe. City was never taken by Romans or Alexander but was destroyed by numerous earthquakes

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Tomb on the hillside above Themesos(?)
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Valerie and I riding on top of the truck on the way back down the mountain from Themosus
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Thıs ıs the Treehouse we slept in at Olympos = Fantastic place, very chilled, great people. 10minutes walk through Roman ruins to the beach = TOP PLACE
www.kadirstreehouses.com

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Canyon at Saklikent in Turkey
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Me ınsıde the gorge at one of the many waterfalls. Gorge has sides 1000m high but is only 50feet or so across
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Where we went 'tubing'. Gorge/river, fantastic scenery and great campsite. Gorge ıs called Saklıkent
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Delway - Turkey - Noble tombs carved into hillside
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Ampitheatre at Ephesus
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Ephesus Ampitheatre with usual crowd of bloody tourists!
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Ephesus - miracle photo with no tourists (apart from me)
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As you can see, Ephesus had a couple of other people on site
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Crowds and Lıbrary ın the dıstance
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Drinking Efes beer at Efes (Ephesus) Girl to my right is an American who joined us from Atilla's place. Strange girl with an interesting line in stories about her life!
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One of those places that you have seen pictures of, Library at Ephesus
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Idylic garden at Attila's Place. Selcuk in Turkey.
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Count those Boobıes - Goddess statue at Ephesus
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Lookıng back to the Lıbrary. They sure did like their pillars in Roman times
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Horse at Troy
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Me at Troy looking out of the original Horse. No really they dug this one up!
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The kids hanging out in a Horse at Troy, Turkey
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Troy - Not quite as Holywood showed it but i did my best to Brad it up! (Although i am younger and more dashing than him!)
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Statement issued by Ataturk about the dead at Galipolli - quite moving really
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Galipolli - bullets shot by other bullets! It was hell of a firefight!
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The Istanbul Blue Mosque - Not very blue but 6 minnarets (long story....)
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Inside the Blue Mosque in Istanbul - No Blue in here either??
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Inside the Blue Mosque
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View of the AyaSofia from the Blue Mosque - Istanbul
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Other Mosque in Istanbul (was Constantinople)
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Serbia
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Serbia - nice scenery crappy roads
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Parliment building in Budapest - very gothic
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Chain bridge in Budapest - architech killed himself as lions had no tongues and were imperfect (Speel chocked)
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Salzburg - Austria, Mozart's birthplace, setting for the Sound Of Music. Nice place
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Fountain and Cathedral in Salzburg
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Who is that on top of that small mountain, all alone tending her flock of Billies? Why, it is a lonely goatherd!
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View from the castle (Festung Hohensalzburg) above Salzburg looking out ovcer the Cathedral.
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Another shot from the castle.Is that an elk in the town? No, it's a doe, a deer, a female dear.
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Damn fine views