08-18-2007, 07:49 AM
Quote:I saw some pictures of the ruins of troy, and I want to go there. WHere is the best city to take a ferry to from piraeus to get to troy? and which island should I stop at because I read there are no ferries directly from athens to turkey, I think I should stop at lemnos.Troy: prepare for a disappointment. The plain is splendid and makes you believe that great things have indeed happened over there, but the hill itself is not easy to understand, although the German archaeologists have done their best with fine explanatory signs.
How to get there: best thing to do is to leave it out from a trip to Greece, because it takes a day to get there, a day to see it, and a day to return, and it's simply not worth the time. However, if you plan a tour through western Turkey, it can easily be inserted.
Quote:Hey Jona, what was the name of that hotel/brothel? Just want to see if it was where I stayed!!!! :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol:I don't remember, it's seven years ago. We entered the city from the north, and it was to the left of the main road, shortly before you entered the old town.
What I do remember is that there was an old couple that welcomed us; the man was drunk, asked hardly any money and did not want to see our passports. I heard some rhytmical sounds from another room, and when I went into town, I was accompagnied by a young women, with whom I had a nice conversation.
We spent another two days over there. The drunk man never asked our passports, there were often sounds, and it was only on the last day, when we drove away, when my friend said "So, we're leaving the brothel", that I realized where we had been - even though I certainly had been offered a lot of clues from which I could have deduced the hotel's true nature. And this is very surprising: after all, I live in that "Sodom & Gomorrah of our age", Amsterdam, and my school is even situated in one of the most notorious parts of that city!! Which proves that naïvité, once lost, can be recovered. :wink:
