On Monday I drove with Beysun in her Mother’s Renault to Perge and Aspendos, two historical sights east of Antalya.

Perge is ruined city set in a large area flanked by bamboo forests and I could have spent hours more there.

In the undergrowth were both green and brown orchids. I used to love orchids as a child and am still fascinated by them.

Perge has a ruined athletics stadium, the first I recall seeing in Turkey. The technology (sides were held up by arches) was still very impressive even with the stadium badly ruined.

Coming out of Perge we stopped at the large weekly open-air bazaar, a great tradition still found all over Turkey.