** continued from yesterday's diary **
We got up and spoke to Ledge about what had happened.
I am not sure if our door was locked or not.
Kylie was last in and I am sure I saw her lock it and she thought she did too.
It turns out that the guys who were in my room were staff but didn’t admit it.
They were confronted the next day but denied it and just laughed when we walked off.
We had to stay there again that night so we all took our stuff on the bus instead of leaving it there as we were quite concerned about the fact that our rooms might be raided while we were out.

We got on the bus and went for our sightseeing day.

(three photos) --The ruins of the City---

The first stop was Troy which was very cool.
It is over 3000 years old.
We saw the old city walls and houses.

Tanya sitting in an amphitheatre

We also visited an amphitheatre.

Poppies

I also picked a poppy which I pressed in my diary to keep as a souvenir of my holiday.

The Trojan Horse and Tanya standing in front

and here is Tanya way up inside!!!

Postcard from Tanya

They have a replica of the Trojan horse there and that was quite cool too.
We climbed up in it and took photos.

We then got back in the bus for the drive to Assos and lunch.
Once again lunch was chicken and chips but they had added some kind of weird soup thing and rice and it was at least a bit warmer than stone cold but not much.

The beach at Assos--- Tanya on the beach

We went and sat on the beach that was just stones and the water was freezing.
The drive to Assos was lovely.
The views through the mountains were beautiful.

The view up the hill towards Assos

Assos is a very small town on the side of the hill.
The ruins are right at the very top but there are houses a bit lower down.
We walked up through the small town to the ruins.
It was quite lovely.

The Temple of Athena and Tanya in the ruins

At the ruins - Kylie Brett Tanya Dave George Simon Marcus

At the very top was the Temple of Athena.

The view across the ocean- Tanya and the island of Lesbos

Views from the Temple of Athena (two photos)

We had views out to the Greek Islands.
I couldn’t believe how close they were.

At one point in his life Aristotle used to live in Assos.

We walked down the side of the hill through the ancient city walls and then back up through the town.

A Turkish lady making bread

I passed an old lady making bread in her outside wood fired oven.
And took a photo.
It shows just what this little town was like and they seemed completely oblivious to us lumbering through in our coaches with our cameras!

The amphitheatre (two photos)--- and Tanya in her seat (two photos)

We then got back on the bus and went around the hill a bit further and came to an amazing amphitheatre.

Views from where Tanya was sitting in the amphitheatre

It had views out to the islands…I am not sure how you would have concentrated on the show with those views.
In Hellenistic times the theater just had the views but apparently in Roman times they built a wall so you had to watch the show.

The view of the amphitheatre from the top

Tanya at the top - "one of my favorite photos of the trip"

It was a long climb to the top but I got there and I have the evidence to show it (one of my favorite photos of the trip).

The "beer holders"!!!

We were also quite pleased to see the beer holders in the seats…actually not really sure what they were for but we all reckon they were beer holders!

The rooms----- The beach and pier (two photos)

We went back to the hotel after a stop-off for a few brewskys to take back to the hotel.

Bec Tiff "in their fantastic shirts" (two photos)----- Simon Dave

Simon------ Dave Tanya

Jo Tanya------ George Jo Tanya

We got back and had a few drinks and we had a guy in our room this time too.
His name was Brett and he was very very cool - so it was nice to have a boy with us.

Dinner was finally warm…it was like a vege stew with rice and bread and it was hot!

The bonfire on the beach...

...and smoke gets in your eyes! Brett Kylie Rachel

The staff had set up a bonfire on the beach.

Kylie Tiff--- George Tanya--- George Marcus

George Marcus------ Tanya Tiff

We all sat around and Ledge brought two cartons of Effes - the local beer.

The Turks were circling but basically staying on the outskirts and I kept as far away from them as possible.
As the night wore on the staff started to get quite close and a bit too friendly with a few people and they were drinking our beer.

Ledge made the decision that we all move over to the rooms and we sat around outside there.
Ledge told a few of the Turkish guys who followed up to piss off and they basically left us alone.