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The next day took us to the town of Finike. There being no road west along the shore of the Mediterranean, we had to take a small boat to Demre, but rough water was too much for several of our people, and they had no interest in the lunch we had brought with us.
We arrived at Santa Claus's home town. Let me quote from the book. ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS AND RUINS OF TURKEY, by Ekrem Akukrgal. "The village of Demre contains the famous church of St. Nicholas. It consists of a Byzantine structure with three apses and a Basilica restored in the 11th century A.D.--A sarcophagus, believed to be the tomb of St. Nicholas, is early Christian in date."
It was getting late when we left Demre. The wind had gone down and the boat ride back to Finike was much smoother. I quote from Verna's diary again "Back to Finike over a calm, beautiful Mediterranean, no hotel rooms in Finike, so we go on to the tiny village of Turencova--and took over all 12 beds in a rooming house that might be called a hotel."
The 12 beds were in three rooms; one room had three beds, another two, the others beds were in one room. The single girls took the room with the seven beds, the Blakes and the Metzgers the other rooms. Things went well for us in the two rooms, but the girls had problems to work out. When Jack made the arrangements with the manager, he was not told that there was another guest who had claim on one of the beds in the room the girls were to use. The manager had assured the other guest, when he gave up his bed, that he could sleep in the closet of that same room.
I do not know what really took place, except that, as the girls were getting ready for bed, in walked the guest who calmly unrolled his blankets and prepared for a good nights sleep in the closet. I could hear a lot of excited voices, it seemed that every one was trying to talk at once. Jack explained to the manager that it was not part of the bargain for the other guest to sleep in the same room, and we never found out where he slept.
The next day we visited the ancient Aspendos theater, and the restored stadium at Perga that seated 27,000 people 2000 [sic] years ago.
We left for home the next morning in the rain, and arrived in Izmir at 11.00 p.m.
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