Well, after 26 days Abraham and I are now back in DC. Berlin was fantastic — great city to explore by foot, bike or U-bahn. We’re gradually overcoming our jetlag and will be making postings with pics in the coming days. We’ll let you know.

Today is our last of 3 days in Selcuk, a small city on the Aegean coast of Turkey next to the ruins of Ephesus. We saw the ruins yesterday, which were amazing, and today went to a small town in the hills 8 km from here called Sirince. Although I’ve never been to Tuscany, Sirince is what I imagine Tuscany would be like. The highlight was eating lunch on the broad terrace of an old Greek School that had been converted into a restaurant, overlooking the valley.
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Just a quick note that we are now in Kayakoy. further west along the Turkish coast. We spent 3 nights in Cirali, which we absolutely loved. We could have spent more time there. Very beautiful, low-key and relaxing.
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