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A Day trip to Metropolis

Mosaic
Here is our 5th trip to a nearby ancient site.
Metropolis is not on the tourist routes and can be hard to find but well worth the trip.
Again as before the pictures taken on the trip can be found on our facebook pages using the links below


Anita in the Theatre Cavea
NEW
CDROMS containing all the pictures and podcasts are now available
Volume 1 - podcasts 1 and 2
Volume 2 - podcasts 3 and 4
The costs is only £4.00 each so make contact if you wish to purchase
Facebook pictures volume 1
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=77652&l=50b7f&id=693906922
Facebook pictures volume 2 
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=77650&l=04029&id=693906922

A trip to Magnesia

Looking across the Procession Area
This pocast looks at our first trip to the ancient ruins of MAGNESIA.
(Remember all our podcasts are avaiable from iTunes as well)
All the pictures of our trip can be found on my Facebook pages at the following links.
 Part one
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=75016&l=8d3cc&id=693906922
Part two
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=75019&l=d2474&id=693906922
 
The Propylon

Day trip to Iassos

This podcast follows our trip to Iassos an area of Roman and Greek ruins.
 
The Bouleuterion  
 
   A marble pillar with Corinthian capital
  
The Byzantine tower of the western port  
  
     A Roman statue in the 'Balik Pazar'
There is a full set of pictures from the day on my facebook pages.    Go to
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=67144&l=0bb05&id=693906922
You can now download and subscribe via iTunes, go to iTunes Store and search   aniste   to get to the podcasts.
You can listen to the podcast below

Gathering the Olive harvest

We gather in the Olive oil harvest and take the olives to the Factory to make the fresh olive oil.  A full selection of pictures can be found on my Facebook page   (If you need to contact me on facebook search facebook for Steve Jacques in Turkey) 
 
  
Listen to the story below.

A short trip to Myus

This is our first Podcast and we have chosen to use our short trip to Myus in the Aydin district of Turkey.  Myus was a sea port many years ago but is now situated inland after the silting up of the river Maeander, some 2000 years ago. All that remains are the ruins of a Byzantine fort and a ,earlier, Ionic temple.  The city was huge and was known to have had over 200 Greek warships in its harbour.  It was from here that the Greek / Persian wars started.  The temple dates from around 500 BC.  After the harbour was silted upthe occupants moved everything to the nearby city of Miletus, leaving just the white stones of the temple of Dionysus, which many of which were later used to make the lower walls of the fort.
The fort stands on a rock outcrop about 20 metres high, now competly surrounded by fields
We hope to bring you many more podcasts on our travel journeys around Turkey over the next year.