Amok in Cappodocia!!

Today I arrived in Urgup. It is a small, noisy village nestled in the mountains around the region known as Cappodocia. One of the shopkeepers apologized for the town,describing it as a wasteland for "old people", as no young people ever seemed to want to visit! Actually, I didn't see any other tourists here, except....after climbing on the local bus to Mustafapasha, another couple from Germany boarded the bus just before takeoff. The fare was 1 lira (about 80 cents) to go to the old Greek city, which was abandoned just after WW1. The German couple and I had a great day, hiking and exploring the ruins around the town. We met a family (father-Turk, Mother-Dutch) and they were in the midst of constructing the most incredible pension/home. My fantasies went wild imagining how incredible it must be to be reconstructing an old stone cave dwelling. The place was indescribeable! It had a wine cellar (with stone vats for grapes. This would become one of their sitting rooms! The views were spectacular! Needless to say....we must visit there in a year or two...and stay at their boutique cave hotel!!