Ruins

With a one day 'half term' from lessons, we had a watersports day in freshening winds. Jerry got planning on a windsurfer while Claire kayaked; then we set off to find the ruins of ancient Teos: They were where everyone said they were. It was amazing to walk amongst Teos grey stone, carved when Rome still had an empire. Apparently, being good to carve made the stone quarried locally sought after, and much of it ended up in Rome itself. In the evening we ate Red Mullet in Sigacik. On Sunday morning we took 'Jerry's shortcut' over the hill to the local market and did as the locals do: sat on a bench overlooking the fishing harbour, watching the World go by. The people of Izmir think that Sigacik folk are sonewhat slow to take up everything that modern advancement offers; the appeal of the place is exactly that! Blogged from a bench in the shade of a palm by the old town fortified walls.