Lexxy your travelogues are always spectacular!
You ought to get a freelance job travelling for a living and writing places up. Esp. the sex angle! "I was seriously getting weak in the knees as my suppressed swinging bachelor-slut gene kicked me in the groin over and over and over".... hah! Think about it... just tell your boyfriend you have to "do research."
The visuals of you being swacked in the Turkish baths... how you saw the Acropolis... the path of donkey shit, etc. it's all so vivid. Thanks for taking us there.
Johanna Constantine was taken to Turkey by a friend for a 3-week tour a few years ago... they went first-class and helicoptered into all the different ruins. Apparetly there's NOBODY out at alot of these places. Tour buses don't make it there. There was some ancient city (forgot name) built into the side of a cliff, like the Anasazi out here in N.Mex. Check out helicopter tours the next time you go. (That side trip for leather coats must have been dreadful but reads hilarious!)
Lots of love... don't worry the puppy will be fine with Miss Lauren.