Stıll not feelıng all that well thıs mornıng unfortunately, but not willing to sit in the hotel all day, I decided to go the the Antalya Archaeology Museum with the gang anyway. Took walk up to the tram via Hadrians Gate, which is a totally cool type of thing to find in the middle of such a large modern city. Stumbling past things like this sure let you know you’re not in Australia anymore!!!! 🙂
Took the tram down to the Archaeology Museum, which was well worth it. It is a really fantastic museum with well laid out displays of ancient coins, tons of really early period pottery, groovy sarcophaguseseses and some really nice mosaics and early turkish carpets. So much to see and I managed to enjoy it quite a bit even though I was a little worried I was going to faint half the time (might have been because of the two soluble asprins in Coke that our host made me have for brekkie at the hotel!!! :S )
Starting to feel a little bit better this afternoon so am off to have a hamman this evening…. 🙂 Though as the fates would have it DrNick is now feeling crook which probably has more to do with staying out boozing all night last night and creeping in at 2am than having caught the tummy bug!!! 🙂
Update:
Went to the Seta Hammam which is located in the old city of Antalya. This particular hammam is approx 600 years old which in itself is really rather groovy 🙂 There was just three of us who decided to brave the Turkish bath… Bonnie (Bonnie is a lecturer from Nazereth College in the US, she loves dogs and grew up in the wine country area of upstate New York. She doesn’t smile much, but is quite a lot of fun and very interesting to talk to) and Ebony (Ebony comes from Perth, laughs a lot, works for some sort of market trader and is as pale as me, but rarely bothers to cover up from the sun so has been frequently sunburnt this trip… silly girl! 🙂 and I were ushered into a small room to disrobe and given what is effectively a rather large teatowel to wrap ourselves in. We then went down under the building to the women’s section of the hammam where we basically put into a marble clad room that felt like a sauna where we were instructed to douse ourselves in water.
We had a woman with us whose name I didn’t catch but if she were German she would have been called Helga and you would have from one glance no question as to her matronly efficiency!!! 🙂 She bustled us into making sure we were good and saturated and then left us to sweat it out for about 15 mins…. and let me tell you – it got hot in there! After that she took us into the real hot room where all the cleaning happens. We were all laid out on a marble slab and one at a time she exfoliated you with a rough glove (definately not synthentic – would love to know what it was made of) then soaped you right up and gave you a full body soapy massage. After that lots of throwing water over you and then a nice hair washing and scalp massage. Absolutely fantastic. Better then I remember last time I was in Turkey. Then we were wrapped up in fresh towels and trotted back upstairs for apple tea. Gotta love it! So now I’m clean as a whistle and soft as a baby’s bum …. all over! 🙂