PORTS of CALL - Ephesus, from Kusadasi
Upper Gymnasium Baths from the entrance to the site.
The Odeon, situated at the upper end of the complex.
Another view of The Odeon, showing rows of seats.
The Government Agora taken from near the Odeon.
Kuretes Street looking downhill towards The Library.
Hadrianus Temple from Kuretes Street.
Kuretes Street and the Hadrianus Temple.
Ancient Public Toilets, nothing is new!
The Library off Kuretes Street, still undergoing restoration.
Helmet, Sword and leg guards carved in marble
The Library complex with uncovered archaeology.
The Grand Theatre and Marble Road.
Oriana and Star Princess-two cliffs of steel- at Kusadasi.
Star Princess sailing from Kusadasi
The World, a floating home of apartments for millionaires
Oriana Passengers giving Star Princess a British Sail-away.
Looking towards Mandraki Harbour, Rhodes, Greece.
Typical street inside Rhodes Old Town, shops and tavernas.
Looking towards the Grand Master's Palace, Rhodes
Taverna with two live Macaws, in Rhodes Old Town.
We arrived at La Goulette, the port for Tunis, to find that there had been a coup a few weeks previously and that the country was now going to become democratic instead of despotic! The uprising was apparantly spontaneous and supported by most of the population. Just to be on the safe side, however, armoured vehicles were still parked in strategic positions and razor wire was evident around government buildings. Apart from that we received a warm and cordial welcome. it is an interesting place to visit.
We also visited the Bardot Museum originally a palace now (or at the time we were there) being refurbished and made into a museum to house, amongst other items, dozens of mosaics, wall mounted and floor laid. These are being "salvaged, collected" from Roman and Greek sites all over Tunisia and brought to this one place "so as to have the mosaics safely all in one place"! Though the idea, in theory at least, is laudable from a historical and archaeological point of view it is very unsatisfactory because the mosaics should be seen in, and at, their original sites to be in context. Moving them like they are doing is to totally take them out of context, they just then become a collection of pretty mosaic pictures.
From the museum we were taken to the Roman ruins of Carthage. The city, long a thorn in the Roman side was, when the Romans finally captured it, totally destroyed. In its place the Romans built their own city of Carthage, the bath ruins being all that now remains.
La Goulette, Camel Corps welcoming us.
View over the City of Tunis, recently liberated after a coup.
The Main Square in the City of Tunis.
Typical enclosed shop in The Medina, or Market.
Ceramic decorated doors on a shop in The Medina.
Open Stall selling shoes, and other things, The Medina.
Decorated Doorway in
The Medina.
Razor wire still in situ, near the main square in Tunis
The Bardot Museum, Mosaic on wall.
One of the ceilings in the Bardot Museum, superb work.
Detail of a ceiling corner in the Bardot Museum, beautiful.
Detail of an Archway ceiling in the museum.
Carthage, a general view Mediterranean in background.
Carthage main view of baths and Mediterranean.
Carthage baths area with remaining structures
Roman inscription and carved decoration
Carved decoration, possibly from a pediment or frieze which is in remarkably good condition.
Carthage street scene, clean, rubbish free and picturesque.
Carthage, Tunisian House Museum, with well dressed "ladies" mannikins
Another room this tme with well dressed men dummies, or mannikins
An ornamented front door of a house in Carthage
Oriana and Pulmanturs Sovereign
Sunset and Carthage
