Saturday 18^th September

We arrived in Bodrum yesterday and anchored.  We had been warned it was noisy and it certainly was.  Massive, thumping music until 3am it was pretty ghastly even with ear plugs in we could feel the boat shake. 

We had decided to put ourselves through this so that we could visit the Maritime Museum that is housed in the castle where they have the relics found from a number of wrecks dating back to the sixth century BC.  The castle was built by the Knights of St John with stone they took from the tomb of King Mausolos of  Halicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.  The castle is tremendous, a proper castle with turrets and crenellations and all the things you want a castle to have.  It is in really good condition and is clearly well looked after.   The museum was every bit as fantastic as we had been told and we were particularly pleased to see the artefacts from the wreck from Yassiada that David Owen had worked on the recovery of during the 1960’s. (David as in David and Susan from the States who visited to sail with us earlier this year).

We are no sitting on deck using the wifi connection from one of the cafe’s on shore while we try to decide whether we want to make the effort to move to another anchorage tonight or stay put and get the ear-plugs out again.