6 June
Kusadasi
What a lovely town. I had never heard of Kusadasi until we booked on this cruise. It's nestled around a couple of bays which have sea a deep Mediterranean blue, really clear water, and buildings climbing up the hills behind it. It is the jumping off place to go to Ephesus, a complete ancient town which has been excavated. Because we only had the morning, we elected to stay in town. It has a bazaar to rival the one in Istanbul (which we won't get to go to now because we will be there on Sunday and it's closed Sundays). There was not a lot of hassling to buy things and people were very friendly and the vendors, quite amusing. I'm not a shopper but managed to buy a few scarves and a silver chain to go with the Murano glass pendant I bought in Athens. John now has enough new shirts to open a shop. There's an ancient Caravanserai in town, a fort built to protect travellers, which is now a hotel. We walked to an old fort on what translates as Pigeon Island, near the cruise terminal and walked around there for quite a while making it back to the ship with 10 minutes to spare. A morning in Kusadasi is definitely not enough. We sailed in early and were followed in by two other cruise ships. There was one already docked. Three of us left at midday so only half a day in port in one of the nicest ports we've been to yet. When we walked to the fort we were chatting with a young taxi driver who wanted to take us to Ephesus. We told him that the ship sailed in an hour and there was a lot of banter after that. He told me to ditch John and come back next year and we'd run away. He offered John 5 camels for me but John said he'd pay him 2 camels to take me away. Photo attached.
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