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June 08, 2005
Day 10: Silifke to Antalya
Sitting on the bus—that describes the majority of the day. The 10-hour bus ride began at 9 a.m. and included the following highlights:
• Winding roads that often required one wheel of the 45 seat bus to dangle perilously over a sheer cliff—hundreds of meters above the sea.
• An overturned tomato truck that must have taken the hairpin turn a little too quickly.
• Several massive bruises on my rear end from slipping on the marble steps at a roadside restaurant and falling down the last 4—landing in a pool of water from the hosed used to wash the bus.
We arrived in Antalya and took taxis to the old town section where our hotel is. The White Garden Hotel is one of the nicest we’ve stayed in, with a delightful inner courtyard over which our room looks.
Jess rallied from her cold long enough to join us for dinner and a stroll. Back in the hotel, I read through most of a book I picked up in the lobby called “Property”—winner of the 2003 Orange Prize. Strange to be reading about early 1800 slavery in the American south as the Islamic call to prayers sounds over the city.
