Selcuk, Turkey

Found our way to Dervish's Homeros Pension in the pouring rain after spending the day on a bus. The pension was pretty cool, we had some wine in the lounge with dervish and some other guests. The next day we spent looking around at the town and going to the ruins of St Johns church (right by our pension).
We spent a morning at Ephesus viewing the amazing ruins. We had an automated guide which told us the history of the city. We also saw Mary's church, the first ever built for her. On the walk back into town we saw cotton fields ready for harvest & Manda went cotton-pickin. That afternoon we borrowed bicycles from Dervish and biked 9km uphill to Sirince. It was a great little town well known for their delicious fruit wine. Mmm. The next day we hired a scooter and headed off to Camlik Steam Locomotive Museum. They had heaps of locomotives and allow you to not only climb in them, but ON them too! After that we headed to Ozdere and Parmacak beaches for a quick blat. Before dropping the scooter back we went for a quick look at the Seven Sleepers ( Where 7 christians who were persecuted by Ephesians were said to seek refuge, in the 3rd century AD. The caves were sealed and it is thought they arose again 2 centuries later when an earthquake broke the seal). We also found an old Turkish bath-house.