Thursday 25th September

After an excellent breakfast we went up on deck to listen to one of the sailors play Turkish tunes on a strange flute-like instrument.  We landed at Izmir just after 9a.m., and we made straight for the Information Centre, from where we were directed to a student’s hostel.

We spent most of the day trying all the shipping agencies for cargo vessel passages to Italy – without success!!

We drank innumerable glasses of the rather weak Turkish tea, served without milk but plenty of sugar.  It is served in little glasses with tapered centers – in fact “thistle shaped”!  it is quite good and very cheap!