Weekend trip to Ephesus

Slowly I am getting used to the Turkish understanding of the words IN time. After spending two hours in the cold night in front of the administration building of the university the second bus also arrived.. finally. Waiting & not being able to sleep makes you addicted to cookies and all the other unhealty food everybody bought for the loooooong bus ride. One reason for staying awake was also the trip with the fairy. About an hour over the silent but bright lightening sea with a hot cay in your hand - cok guzel.

Still tired but full of expactations we finally arrived in Ephesus.

Up on the hill me made our wishes come true by hanging them on a wall in front of the house of the Virgin Mary

 

This enclosure for archaeological remains at Ephesus elegantly reconciles historic conservation with accessibility for visitors. The site of a succession of great ancient civilizations, Ephesus, on the south-west coast of modern Turkey, embodied a peculiarly fertile synthesis of architecture and culture. In 356BC the Greeks built the Artemesium (a colossal Ionic temple dedicated to Artemis the fertility goddess) which was one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. During the 2nd century BC, Ephesus was the fourth largest city in the eastern Roman Empire, famous for its Artemesium, the Library of Celsus and its medical school.
Quoted from Catherine Slessor's Housing History.

I'm moving, I'm coming, can you hear what I hear?
It's calling you my dear, out of reach - take me to my beach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPdn7xh5hnc
All Saints - pure shores

This was totally worth it!

Get over your hill & find there with grace in your heart and flowers in your hair -Mumford & Sons

Wende dein Gesicht der Sonne zu dann fallen die Schatten hinter dich.

Theatre

lower Akropolis

Pergamon was an ancient Greek city in the modern-day Turkey today located 26 km from the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus that became the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon during the Hellenistic period under the Attalid dynasty.

Today, the main sites of ancient Pergamon are to the north and west of the modern city of Bergama.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon