This is our hotel in the Mediterranean Sea resort town of Antalya, where everything was expensive and they wanted you to pay in Euros.  Some people in our group didn't care for this hotel.

But I liked it.  Here's the view from my room's balcony.

A very nice view from my balcony.

Pretty blue water.

Nice company.

Spectacular sunset.

A walk down 256 steps to a deck where you can jump into the Mediterranean and let the waves dash you against rocks.  What more could you want?

The view really was nice, though.

We ate outside on the tables set up by the pool, with a soft Mediterranean breeze whispering past.  That was nice too.

And the next morning the rising sun made the Taurus Mountains glow pink and blue.  Mete insisted the proper spelling was "Torrus," but every guidebook I've seen says, "Taurus."

Pink sunrise.

The sunlight and the clouds and the mountains and the Mediterranean.

And steps.  Lotsa steps.  Did I mention there were 256?  I think there were more going up than there were going down.

On the deck, all the way down the 256 steps.

This is where I was supposed to swim.  I decided that would not be a good idea.

So I climbed 256 steps.

That's Tony up there.  He's from Boston.

There he is up close.  Tony saw most of Turkey through the lens of his camera.  But then I look at all these pictures I've taken and I wonder if I didn't look like this quite a bit of the time, too.

More tricks of light and clouds and mountains in Antalya.  Nice sunset.

Another sunrise.  OK, that's about enough of this.

One last pretty picture of the Mediterranean in Antalya.