The Cesme Peninsula is one of the Turkish Aegean coast’s most stylish locations. This is the spit of land where the Silk Road from China used to end. For British tourists familiar with the mass tourism model of the big resorts, the small villages and towns here, with abundant small-scale accommodation, are an unexpected, and… Continue reading
Posts tagged Ephesus
How I fell for the oldest trick in the pickpocket’s book
“Never give a sucker an even break.” That’s the rule they work to at the entrance gate to Ephesus in Turkey, and why should they make an exception for me? WC Fields was simply expressing a far older truth in the musical Poppy in 1923. I’m sure purses were regularly lifted in Roman times here,… Continue reading →
Lazy days on Izmir’s broad boulevards
On a wide bay under a circuit of high hills half way down Turkey’s west coast is a big city with a long history. Today Izmir is one of the fastest growing cruise ship ports of call on the Aegean, and an excellent base for excursions to nearby Ephesus and Pergamon. I spent some lazy… Continue reading →