Safe and Sound in Greece

Yasas!

As some of you may have heard, there was a bombing in Ankara a couple of days ago. We are alive and well away from Ankara!

In fact, we are now in Greece. After a not-so-glorious day in the "backpacker's" hangout that is Olympos, and an absolutely GLORIOUS 2 days in Patara, we took a quick hydrofoil ferry from Fethiye (Turkey) to Rhodes (Greece) this morning. See pictures for more details!

In a nutshell, lessons learned for future trips to Turkey:- Turkish Breakfasts are truely the most complete meal: Cheese, tomato, cucumber, black olive, bread, an egg, jam (rose jam is preferable), yogurt, and nutella.
- Never pay more for things in Turkey, always pay less (more money= more ripped off!)
- No matter how sketchy it seems, things always tend to work out in the end.
- Never underestimate the genuine kindness of people in small towns.
- If you want to actually get a feel for Turkish culture (and make some lifelong friends in the process), small towns are WAY better than big cities.
- Anything described/marketed as a "backpacker's _______" basically means "here you will get drunk with other travellers and experience no Turkish culture in the meantime!"
- Stick a 20 minute walk in front of anything (even if it is as gorgeous as Patara, Turkey), and you cut out 95% of the crowds found at equally beautiful destinations. (I think this is true to all countries, not just Turkey!)

Well, it's bedtime in Rhodes soon, and we have many a medieval fortress to explore tomorrow (Rhodes, in case you didn't know, is supposedly the best surviving example of medieval fortifications in the world. it really is cool so far!)

Love from Eric and Amber, full of souvlaki and Ouzo :)