The city of Rhodes in Turkey - Rhodiapolis

Early morning, Kurt and I took the dolmus to Kumluca, 20km away. Then we started to walk, at a mosque we asked for Rhodiapolis. The man described the way carefully, in Turkish, and pointed out the direction. We followed the road and then there was a lot of signs. We soon saw the ruins on top of a hill. It was a hot walk already in February. The area was closed but other people walked around the fence and so did we. It's not much excavated but the amfi theater is very nice with good view.

Rhodiapolis was settled by people from Rhodes more than 2000 years ago. It was a rather small city. They minted silver coins which have been found.

The Akdeniz university has a station here.

Nose-horned viper

Walking the road up the hill there is a snake in front of us. It's a nose-horned wiper, extremely venomous, say's the guide book.
It was dead so we survived!

Dolphins in the marina

There was a call on the radio "dolphins"
I walked out on the pier to the lighthouse and had a good view of the marina. Suddenly I saw them.
A very nice sight.

Kahvalti

Kahvalti on the roof

When I took a walk in the sunny morning, I came to the end of the street up on the hillside, a man, Djingis, showed me to join his family in having breakfast on the roof of his house. Everybody gathered on a big blanket, grandmother to grandchildren. We communicated with a few words in English and Turkish. Some words are universal as Ibrahimovic and Fenerbahce. We had tea and olives, tomatoes, cheese, advocate, bread and many other things.
It was a wonderful start of the day.