Izmir

Before I forget

I want to apologise for not replying to comments or reading your blogs while I've been away

I don't always have wifi

So I blog when I can

And don't get a chance to do much else

Anyway

Today was an early start

Especially for me

As I didn't sleep well at all last night

At 1am

When I still couldn't sleep

I took a days meds

That did the trick

And I did fall asleep

But it has left me one days meds short now

So I really need to ration what I have left

I have under two days meds for three days

If I though about that too much

I would worry and stress and fret

And wouldn't enjoy the rest of my holiday

So I am going to forget all about it

So 

This morning we woke early

And got up at 6 30am

We stumbled around our room

Trying to wash 

Dress 

And pack

We had breakfast in the kitchen instead of the roof terrace

As it was a bad day

There are two little women in the kitchen

Who make all kinds of beakfast

Every morning I've been having toast and a boiled egg

But this morning I had an omelette

Just with salt and pepper

Delicious

Having breakfast is quite the revelation for me

At home 

I don't usually have any thing

And if I do it's something silly

Like three biscuits

But here I've been eating a substantial breakfast 

And keeping it down 

That keeps me going until lunch time 

When I might have cheese on toast

And again

No purging

However I have been purging my main meal

But the thing is

I don't always feel like purging

It's more out of habit than anything else 

Anyway 

The two little women in the kitchen help us with our breakfast 

And usually we then go to the roof terrace

Where there are another two women 

Who make tea or coffee 

But as I said 

This morning we ate in the kitchen

We tipped both the kitchen and house keeping staff

As they have been great

Every day when we head out

The staff clean our room

Leave fresh towels and toiletries 

Clean bed linen 

Even folding our pyjamas 

So they really earned their tip

Packing this morning was funny

In a kind of I want to pull out my hair funny

As usual 

We all brought far too many clothes with us

And bought so much stuff

Trying to fit it all in to our suitcases was a military operation

But 

After much struggle 

And with the air blue from cursing

We got them closed

And we hauled them down to reception

We thanked all the staff

And called a taxi

And off we went on the next leg of our trip

We arrived at the airport in good time for our 11am flight

We checked in 

Made our way through security

The plane was delayed so with the hour in the air and another hour waiting

We arrived in Izmir at about 1pm

Next we had to find a train to take us to the town we were staying called Selcuk

That was a palava

We found information 

And the metro stop

Saw there was a train going at 2 pm

Went to buy a ticket

But were told we had to buy it at a different booth

Where there was no one

We asked again 

And they said someone would be along shortly 

50 minutes we waited

I shit you not

We almost missed our train 

And I almost lost the will to live

So that was fine 

We had our tickets 

We were on time for the train

Which came a short time later 

We each had a huge case 

And loading them off and on transport was not fun at all

But we did it 

And made it to Selcuk in one piece

From there we got a taxi to the hotel

What a relief to finally drop our bags and sit down 

Oh the comfort and the luxury of it all after a long journey

So it is from my hotel bed in my complimentary slippers that I write this post

In starting to flag now

And am kind of ready to go home 

To see my dogs

To have a proper ham sandwich 

And sleeping in my own lovely bed

Here are a few photos....