All posts on October 2015


Magnesia, the Roman Stadium near Selcuk Turkey
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Amongst the fig and olive trees, Magnesia and Priene, Turkey

We veered the car off the main road to find ourselves bumping slowly along a dusty, track leading to seemingly nowhere. Either side of us were an abundance of fig trees, their branches hung low, heavy with what looked like …

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View over Basilica of St John near Ephesus,Turkey
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Cleopatra, Mary, John and Paul, biblical icons in Ephesus?

Did these people really walk where I am standing? Cleopatra, Marc Anthony, Mary, the Mother of Jesus, John the Apostle, Saint Paul? Did they live here, on these same lush hillsides, amidst the olive groves and fig trees? Did they feel …

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Terrace Houses of Ephesus, Turkey
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Life in The Terrace houses of Ephesus

The Terrace House of Ephesus are beautiful, stylish villa set on 4 levels, set around a spacious, el fresco courtyard where the sunlight dapples upon the hand laid marble floors. The stunning and dramatic vaulted entrance hall leads to a …

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The Celsus Library of Ephesus, Turkey
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Walking with the Romans….. in Ephesus

Close your eyes, be quite still, concentrate hard and listen carefully……. Then conjure up the sounds of Ephesus, the clattering rumble of chariot wheels passing along the marble paved street just inches from your toes. The occasional crack of a whip …

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View of Lourmarin Village, Luberon, Provence, France
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Provencal rosé wine with friends in Lourmarin

As my stylish, little, Italian designed, rental car nipped along the twisting curves of Provence’s Luberon Valley towards Lourmarin my heart skipped a beat in excited anticipation. Fields of lush vineyards flanked the narrow roadside, row after row of low …

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