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The Peloponnese has something for everyone Iris protects breakfast from the sparrows every morning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1519000730990-RK0QL4XREJLASK9KC416/IMG_5212.jpg Home - The Peloponnese has something for everyone I am a very small spectator within the enormous theatre at Epidaurus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1518997238694-31DLVI4GFH6BIAS3ASCC/IMG_7617.jpg Home - The Peloponnese has something for everyone By the hotel pool, built into the walls of the Crusader castle above the town https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1518997083722-DAC37RGH6OTJWPDYRG4C/DSC01046.jpg Home - The Peloponnese has something for everyone The small Venetian castle guarding Nafplia Bay from kitesurfers with the castle of Larissa on the hill above Argos in the background https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1519000665012-ZNF3KMS4H9HHD8617JGY/IMG_5183.jpg Home - The Peloponnese has something for everyone The Bay of Nafplia from ancient Mycenae - looking over the side of a 3500 year old tomb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1518997170940-H6VTDSIWB79O2QI8HZ0P/IMG_7594.jpg Home - The Peloponnese has something for everyone Nafplia at sunset https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1519000621024-I0G5JA8M9IHPGL6TNVX7/DSC01089.jpg Home - The Peloponnese has something for everyone Every evening, somewhere different! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1519001231703-DMD4Y892JEVWKD1Z5B9E/IMG_5307.jpg Home - The Peloponnese has something for everyone Mystras nestled in the hills above the Spartan plain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1519074872310-3EO1X1NSZY45STS8QA0L/IMG_5796.jpg Home - The Peloponnese has something for everyone Peaceful, sweet Nemea among the vines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1519001412885-VM57RFP4J7WTH0YL30K4/IMG_5301.jpg Home - 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Beautiful location and large enough for serious entertainment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1510341774140-4MBTOCZIXJ0J88PQXV8F/IMG_3297.jpg Home - A journey through time in Turkey The temple of Zeus, Euromos - 2nd century BC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1510342077686-M8HE9NQGBVQSFVTW8D2W/IMG_3290.jpg Home - A journey through time in Turkey And of course, great food everywhere! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1510341807227-1KAX50PDN7STI567381G/IMG_3198.jpg Home - A journey through time in Turkey Ephesus - 2nd century AD. One of the 4 largest Roman cities in the world. They lived well here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1510341974672-IXKN1ZR0GB9GGS0XWGYT/IMG_3313.jpg Home - A journey through time in Turkey The knights of St John's castle in Bodrum - build in 1400 to resist the Ottomans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1510341510769-F7523R23HU8CUZZMX7NG/IMG_2183.jpg Home - A journey through time in Turkey Constantine's city - surrounded by water and a powerful wall - that stood for 1,000 years as a bridge between Europe and Asia. Today it still acts as a buffer: a moderate secular state (for now) between radical Islam and the West. As it did from the beginning of Islam until the fall of Constantinople and the end of the Byzantine empire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1510342008505-I72KUSJCH8PWS6BTXJGL/IMG_3322.jpg Home - A journey through time in Turkey Nice place to be sent if you lived in Medieval England! Kos and Greece in the distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1510341688915-E01Z04702XLE22YIHUFN/IMG_2189.jpg Home - A journey through time in Turkey The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (the Blue Mosque) - 1616 AD - at sunset https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1510341546062-MM9FUJJ9Z1IY6Q147VPW/IMG_2188.jpg Home - A journey through time in Turkey Justinian's Hagia Sophia - 537AD (minarets added later). We were hunting Byzantine mosaics here and in Chora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1510341934134-H4LQ9QWCX3TH4YKYLYTG/IMG_3247.jpg Home - A journey through time in Turkey The ruins of Miletus. A glorious 4,000 year old city, conquered by Alexander in 334 BC, turned into a bishopric with a castle by the Byzantine's in the 6th century, used by the Ottomans in the 14th century but finally abandoned when the harbour silted up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1510342042824-3OH7C1OE332KN4QRSON4/IMG_3328.jpg Home - A journey through time in Turkey Full circle in time. to the oldest shipwreck ever found - 1400 BC treasure on a ship carrying enough tin and copper to make bronze armor for 5,000 soldiers. A king's ship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1510341618311-CIBWBR53C36U3TRQK44X/IMG_3074.jpg Home - A journey through time in Turkey A humble 6th century AD cistern, filled with water to withstand siege for years, now a beauty in it's own right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1510341586282-96UF879MEN9YKXHYRR09/image-asset.jpeg Home - A journey through time in Turkey Glorying in the scale of Justinian's vision The largest building in the world for 1,000 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1510341655380-IV5CJRMRFKI7PWA0SXR2/IMG_3101.jpg Home - A journey through time in Turkey The Fort of Europe built by Mehmed the Conqueror in 4 months as part of his strategy to choke trade in the Bosphorus and take Constantinople. He was only 21 years old! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59163a3c29687fd2caf1afd3/1510341891839-4FL81L8ZPP4PSFAQX96Z/IMG_3273.jpg Home - A journey through time in Turkey One of the Seven Wonders of the World, the 6th century BC temple of Apollo at Didyma near Miletus. 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