Hi Everyone,

I'm on the job and would love to send a report to you but the netbook I bought specifically for the purpose wouidn't start just as I was leaving, hence İ just gave up and am trying to rely on hotel computers.
Now I'll have to wait to get home before I type up the story.

One thing for sure is you'd love Turkey - a very fascinating country with most amazing sights.

I hear the weather is extremely cold in Australia - sorry to tell you that it is superb here!!! 

I have taken a balloon ride over a place with a lunar landscape / visited an underground city/ancient ruins.  Today we visited the Temple of Diana which was once one of the seven wonders of the world and is now a lonely column with a family of three storks living on top!  Tomorrow we visit Troy and then on to Gallipolli.

The food is superb with very delicious vegetable dishes like stuffed capsicums and eggplant. Their potatoes are very yummy - they slice them and cook in butter. Breakfast is 7 different types of olives
(truly!) and bowls of yoghurt/ figs and dried apricots/ halva/honeycomb dripping with honey/ five types of cheeses and ten types of bread rolls. But we are missing a decent cup of tea! However apple tea
is wonderful - a great culinary invention! Those pastries dripping in honey and sugar syrup are a worry too.

Resisted Turkish rugs today. One of our group did a fabulous bit of shoppıng - she brought the price of a very nice rug down from 2700 Turkish lira (which might be 2300 Aust dollars or thereabouts) to 1000
Aust Dollars! Hows that for nifty shoppıng?

I'll tell you the story about the leather coats when I get home.

I'm having a horrid time trying to use a Turkish keyboard on the  computer. They have two sorts of the letter i. Type in the wrong one and you get a questıon mark. I haven't found commas/ inverted commas/
or dollar signs. Very frustrating.

Well speak soon and keep in from the cold!!!
Love
Roslyn