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The last place Paul put into port in Turkey before he headed to Jerusalem on his 3rd missionary journey was Patara (see Acts 21.1).  It is an enormous archaeological site at which there is now much restoration work. Among other things the site includes a light house ruin (see below), today called St, Paul’s lighthouse,…

There are many wonderful little fishing villages on the south coast of Turkey, many of which you can only really visit by boat.  Kas (pronounced Kash) is one such place, being the site of the ancient Greek city named Antiphellus. We see here the same sort of monumental sarcophagii we have seen elsewhere, and much more, including…

CLERGY WHO HAVE LOST THEIR FAITH      While I can feel sympathy for clergy who have lost their faith, I do have a few questions for them, more for their professors in seminary, a handful for Daniel Dennett, and a couple of very basic ones for Solange de Santis.  It was the journalist, de Santis,…

One of our last stops on the Gullet boat tour was the impressive little town of Demre, also basically inaccessible except by water. This was another Greek fishing village, that has some fortifications from the Ottoman period, and more interestingly, ancient Lycian and Greek tombs, and the oldest olive trees in all of Turkey.
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