Our other Turkish port of call was Izmir. The town itself was ugly and industrial, so we took a tour bus (something I almost never do) some two hours away to the town of Kusadasi to see the ancient Greco-Roman ruins of Ephesus. The second we arrived we were enthralled, it was really incredible. We saw the remains of the city brothel and the ornamental footprints in the marble that once signified a house of ill repute. There were communal commodes still there, basically ditches dug in the ground covered by a marble bench with a line of holes in it. The toilets were unisex. In colder months the wealthy would send their slaves to sit on the holes first to warm it for them. Also there was the ruin of a great colesseum where theatre productions were enacted and the remains of a great library. The grounds were pretty big but evidently only 10 percent of the ancient city has been excavated.