Selcuk, more rain, the case of the missing Laundry, and Simon

Monday October 22nd

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Well guess what happened when we woke up this morning? You'll never believe it! It was raining. nevermind; we had bigger fish to fry: First and foremost, our laundry, Second the fact everyone in this hostel was nuts... and then there was Simon.

We had put our laundry in on Saturday night when we first arrived. It still had not arrived. Every time we had asked the day before we were told 'yes, yes, laundry. Yes... yes.' All good stuff and very helpful apart from now we were actually beginning to need it. We were getting this amazingly helpful little nuggets of gold from the indomitable Simon. Simon was part of the staff at this hostel. He was also the most cantankerous miserable git I have every met. Not to mention the most unhelpful. His face looked like, if it were to try and attempt to smile, it might have disastrous consequences to his nostrils and overhanging forehead.

We sat and waited in desperate hope for our laundry to turn up - fools! Whilst we did this the owner's son starting barking at the small pup that was tied up in the kennel. Another 1omins past and the our laundry still hadn't arrived. Simon had left. The boy was still barking like a dog. The dog was looking very confused. 20mins passed. No laundry. The boy had let the dog off the lead. The dog had tried to make a run for it. I don't blame it. The boy caught it and barked at it for another 10mins. We left; sans laundry.

It had stopped raining. We decided to visit Ephesus and to try and make our own way. The hostel did offer a free transfer but we had got up late. So we wandered down the road, clothes humming gently in the breeze, insects dying in our wake. We got as far as the Kofte place and it started raining again. We were walking to the bus station when the heavens opened -5mins later we were back in the hostel. The kid was still mentally confusing the dog.

We went to the local museum for an hour. It was pretty cool for an hour or. It is well worth seeing and has a great section on Gladiators. The only thing I didn't like was that most of the stuff had been swiped from Ephesus. After that it was back to the hostel.

We stayed in and watched Gallopoli on an old VHS video recorder and got hammered. We made friends with a Danish couple, Brian and Jetta and then later to English people. Izzy and Zoe. Izzy told us he had been kidnapped in Pakistan and was held captive by his own family - he escaped after a month.

We all ended up really drunk and Simon went mental. He chucked us out of the common room to bed. He found out we were still up drinking in Izzy and Zoe's room. We were all in the dog house after that. We were sent off to bed in disgrace.