Pearls of the Aegean

I had to leave the coast for a bit and walk back to the port along the road. I stopped into a shop and bought a bottle of water and asked in the shop if there was a coastal path, but I think the road that I was on was the closest to it because everything along the seafront seemed to be all apartment complexes. I don't quite know what had happened to the pavements on this stretch of road, in some places they were all crumbled and broken, as if there had been an earthquake. I think I heard that there had been riots in some parts of Turkey, perhaps all these broken pavements were the result?

As I walked back to the port, I had my ipod on, walking along the road singing to Madonna. I got some very strange looks, but no one knew me there, so who cares and it avoided having to talk to randy Turkish men too!


Anyway, the road veered back to the seafront and I took some pictures of the Jade Resort and of Pigeon Island as I approached it.




Pigeon Island reminds me a lot of St Michael's Mount, a fort on an island joined to the land by a causeway, but in Pigeon Island's case, the causeway is a permanent concrete dock and not subject to the whim of the Atlantic's tides.

I went over onto the Island and walked around the fort. I took some pictures of the harbour and the town, used the toilet and then started back down the hill.