Troy

Today we have travelled to Troy to see the ruins and the renowned wooden Trojan Horse.  The replica is huge and really not based on too much fact at all I don't think.  After Troy we went to Pergamon which is the site of the first recorded hospital.  The ruins were strewn but some parts like an underground tunnel, shower, mud baths and healing springs are intact.  Tonight finds me in Izmir which is the second biggest seaport in Turkey after Istanbul.  It is quite modern by the standards of what I have seen so far.  This hotel is quite sumptious.  Izmir actually overlooks an inlet of the Aegean Sea.

The food has been great and plenty of it.  Tonight dinner was in a huge convention resteraunt in this hotel.