"Notes from Turkey Posted September 10, 2007 | 12:57 PM (EST)
A couple of weeks of the hard life on Turkey's Aegean coast. We're north of Bodrum, the Turkish Riviera resort that the Ertegun brothers of Atlantic Records fame helped make very popular, and very crowded.
But here where we are is away from the mobs, on the other side of the peninsula. On waking, clump down from the house past the bougainvillea, down the rocky slope of olive trees and flower-speckled shrubs to the private jetty, and flop in. You're splashing in the sea of Homer, pretty much. Or rather, Herodotus, who was from Bodrum when it was known as Halicarnassus in Ionia. The Aegean being saltier than the rest of the Mediterrean, you float without effort."
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