Great day at Ephesus today - we took the Ephesus with an Expert tour and visited the museum, many parts of Ephesus along with the Terrace Houses with an archaeologist who has been working there over 40 years. He was very excited to show us many of his personal finds - he has had quite a career!

The Terrace Houses were fabulous - it was so interesting to see the restoration work in progress and realize what an amazingly complicated jigsaw puzzle it is. The weather was beautiful - mild and breezy - you could have stayed there all day without any discomfort. Pix will be forthcoming - hopefully from the lens lads as ours do not do it justice (plus it takes forever to get anything done on an iPad - I just learned that a session on an ipad times out if you are idle just 3 minutes which explains alot!)

Below are some pix from our first day in Israel that I finally got uploaded. The first are from a pretty town in northern Israel, Rosh Pinna.

The Mer house - home of an expert on malaria and an important contributor to the eradication of malaria in the 1930's:



There is a lot of development of older homes into B&Bs - love all the pretty doors in town: