Sirince

Sirince was once a Greek village, abandoned in 1920’s but taken over by Turks from Greece who kept the Greek character. Returning, we had a pleasant surprise at the Cetin Doll Museum – a wonderful collection of exhibits by a retired teacher who made over 600 dolls from papier mache, and created scenes from life in a village of his childhood. Harvest, summer grazing, wedding, town scenes, etc,. ending with a series of scenes from tales of Hodja.

Supposedly a shorter day, we estimated we’d be back at the hotel by 2:30, but the walk to Sirince from Ephesus took longer than expected, and we arrived there for lunch after 2:30, with a pottery shop still to come. Got back to hotel at about 7, and never did get down to the beach this time. Happened to be reading Freya Stark’s description of her explorations in Lycia in the 1950s “We could follow the route by the lake and just do it; and Araxa, a mere nothing on the map, could be glanced at in the morning as one passed. This was my mistake, for no temptation should ever persuade one, anywhere in the Levant, to try to do more than one thing in one day”

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Butterfly

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Horse, olive trees

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Asphodel, poppies

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Dung beetles

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Roof tiles

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Sirince

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Hiking into town

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Woman selling lace

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Card game, Srince