O' Cobbles...
(This is a backdated entry, I was writing it as I waited for a taxi to Istanbul Ataturk airport, but the driver turned up early, and I had to shutdown before I got a chance to finish it... Anyway, I finally got online in Antalya, it's lovely. Will write more tomorrow if I get a chance.)

If I ever have to walk on cobbles again, it will be too soon.

3 days of walking around on old, hard, ridged and badly laid cobbles has made Sebby a sad boy. I just got back from the Topkapi palace (I now have fantastic ideas for the harem that I'll have in my castle).

I'm not even physically tired - it's just my ankles... they're rebelling against the lack of support for each and every haphazard step that I make.

Anyway! I've come back to the hotel a little early. My taxi to the airport arrives in 30 minutes.

Antalya is next. I'm staying in a lovely hotel, in 'Old Antalya' (itself a landmark), which apparently specialises in serving its very own organic fruit, grown in their back garden.

Incidentally, the fruit I've had here is amazing. Last night I had a 'Crepe Dervish' (the restaurant was called Dervish), which was basically a crepe, with honey, and then covered/filled with melon, kiwi, orange, cherries, some home-made ice cream...

It was actually the nicest thing I've had so far. To be totally honest, the rest of the food has bored me very quickly... It's just kebabs.

But having a country that specialises in baklava and fruit is by no means a bad thing...!

That also reminds me - the restuarant had a real, flesh-and-blood whirling dervish dancing...! To music!

He was utterly BORING. He whirled around slowly, with the most bored expression on his face. He didn't blur with alacrity or something... He just spun around on the spot for 5 minutes, while a couple of other guys played some music. I guess spinning must be fairly difficult; dizziness and stuff... But even so, it was really dull.

Almost finished my first book - Memoirs of a Geisha. Going to start Count of Monte Cristo tonight. I'm currently working my way through a list of intellectual, informative and inspiring books suggested to me by the cute, blonde and brilliant American.

(Not really the end, but I can't recall what I was going to write about, sooooo...)