31 May, Selçuk
Barim Pension 60TL (breakfast included)

A long, lazy day. Our pension is super – owned by two brothers, one of whom is a keen cyclist – so we were happy to spend large chunks of the day either lolling about in our room or lolling about in the courtyard garden, connected to the net, not accomplishing very much at all. Selçuk is a town of 35,000 that services tourists intent on visiting nearby Ephesus, which we plan to do tomorrow. It has a lively Saturday market, overpriced, but laid-back restaurants, and the remains of a Roman aquaduct visible in patches near the town centre. Storks nest here from March to September, both on the aquaduct and on the electricity poles on top of which nesting racks have been built. The Barims have a nesting rack on top of their chimney and the Spanish castanet clacking of the mom with her single chick in the nest there can be heard throughout the pension on occasion. Serendipity at work: a fellow guest overheard us enquiring about a physio for Charl, and offered us his physio skills, telling us afterwards that Charl would live. Thank you, Des from Alice Springs.

Barim Pension Selçuk

Barim Pension Selçuk

Stork

Selçuk market

Selçuk market

Selçuk market

Selçuk market