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| Holiday to Bodrum Peninsular, September 2012 |
Following on the super smooth organisation of Don and Muriel Clark, some
thirteen G & H Ramblers found themselves, after a dawn start,
fifteen degrees warmer, at Bodrum Airport on Monday 24
September, looking forward to a week’s walking with HF Holidays.
As the daytime
temperature never dropped below thirty thereafter, their endurance skills on
the Bodrum peninsula’s stony tracks were certainly to be tested.
Encouraged by our two
guides, Barbara and Ian, we explored the extensive olive groves and forest
from nearby Torba to the end of the peninsular at Yalikavak, sometimes with
stupendous views down to the coast, and once among the semi-excavated ruins
of Pedasa. By
summer’s end this is a dried,
harsh environment, of hollyoak, thorn bush and asphodel, yet graced by the
plenty of the olive harvests to come, the sense of the antique world never
far away, and the call to prayer floating into our lunchtime shade.
The antique and modern blended happily: exploring the ancient stones
of Pedasa, our route had been traced using Google Earth (and local know-how)
given the complete dearth of walking maps in Turkey!
Our very comfortable modern hotel, with a magnificent landscaped
circular swimming pool. and verandah awash with cerise bougainvillea and
plumbago proved a daily balm to the footsore and weary, including, too,
those who made the long journey
to Ephesus during the week. One
of the greatest ancient cities, an antique blockbuster, of truly imperial
dimensions and character……. Not forgetting also the magnificent temple of
Artemis, with its great head of Medusa and soaring columns thirteen metres
high, and the scattered antique masonry everywhere, adorned with scraps of
Greek and Roman detail. |