with the swimming pool, an outside bar, and this, the first time I've seen an olive tree in bloom...

Friendly locals...

But if you look closer at the beach, well, they don't seem to do any immediate local clean-up, and both the plastic that won't dissolve and who knows what that has dissolved has all arrived "downstream" from Istanbul...

Supper was a sprawling buffet, colorful, though toned down for every visitor possible...


I was irritated the wi-fi didn't reach the rooms and kept cutting out even in the lobby, and those of us on the not-pool, not-beach side of the hotel overlooked a ? petting zoo? animal reserve? chicken yard ? (smelled like a chicken yard from my balcony on the second floor), and that one sad rooster thought that dawn came at 3, and 4:30, and 5 and 6:20...

But not a bad 2 nights, and we could look across the cove to hills just before Troy, where some of those Greeks may have landed, some, oh, 3200 years ago...


later, bob