hotbloodedinmd
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Well, how's this for embarassing?
A number of years ago, my wife and I lived in Turkey. Being young and foolish, we did a lot of thoroughly insane things (particularly considering the environment where we lived). Likely the most embarassing thing that ever happened to either of us happened while we lived there.
Over Thanksgiving one year, we decided to travel to the resort town of Pamukkale. Pamukkale is a very ancient health resort -- it has its beginnings in the time of the Hittites. The place is simply littered with Roman and Greek ruins. The natural attraction of the place are the most magnificent hot springs in the entire Meditteranean region.
http://www.camocagi.org/2004/max/pamukkale.jpg
If I told you that the name of the town means "cotton castle," I'm sure you can appreciate why. The waters were, for centuries, reputed to have curative powers. In recent years, the place has developed into quite the health resort -- there are several hotels that have been built on the site...each hotel takes a portion of the waters and routes them through different indoor and outdoor pools and then finally out to the terraces shown in the above picture. FWIW, this was the basic pattern followed by the Romans with their public baths they built on the site 2,000 years ago.
http://johnpaulheil.com/turkey/Thermal%20Pool%20at%20Pamukkale%202.JPG
Sorry for the long lead-up, but I really want you to appreciate this. So picture this: a young couple touring a resort built on an ancient Roman site that still has hot springs after 2,000 years. Touring there during the off-season (meaning very few, if any other people were there with us). Add on this that this is in a nominally Muslim country.
Well, after a long day touring the ruins, we decided to take a dip at night. So we went to an indoor thermal (spring-fed) pool that was built basically like a grotto. We're all alone in there (its the off-season, remember) and, well, we started to get rather amourous. There was a part of this pool that had a walkway over it (sort of like a little cave), so we swim over there and then get naked. We both thought that there was nobody around and that we wouldn't get caught. A few minutes later, in walks the somebody. We get really quiet really quickly. Looking out from this indented area, we see that it is a night watchman. We became extremely quiet extremely quickly, because we knew that we'd get busted if we even caused the water to ripple. So we dared not even get dressed because we might cause a little sound. The guard was walking around like he was looking for something, but he didn't appear to notice us. He even walked directly over us and stood there for several minutes. (Although the western part of Turkey was fairly modernized, particularly in tourist spots like this, public nudity, much less public sex, was not generally acceptable)
He finally left. We got our swimsuits on and went back to our room. I personally think that he knew exactly what he was doing and exactly where we were and exactly what we were doing. But we'd never know that for sure.
Its not just a job, its an adventure!
A number of years ago, my wife and I lived in Turkey. Being young and foolish, we did a lot of thoroughly insane things (particularly considering the environment where we lived). Likely the most embarassing thing that ever happened to either of us happened while we lived there.
Over Thanksgiving one year, we decided to travel to the resort town of Pamukkale. Pamukkale is a very ancient health resort -- it has its beginnings in the time of the Hittites. The place is simply littered with Roman and Greek ruins. The natural attraction of the place are the most magnificent hot springs in the entire Meditteranean region.
http://www.camocagi.org/2004/max/pamukkale.jpg
If I told you that the name of the town means "cotton castle," I'm sure you can appreciate why. The waters were, for centuries, reputed to have curative powers. In recent years, the place has developed into quite the health resort -- there are several hotels that have been built on the site...each hotel takes a portion of the waters and routes them through different indoor and outdoor pools and then finally out to the terraces shown in the above picture. FWIW, this was the basic pattern followed by the Romans with their public baths they built on the site 2,000 years ago.
http://johnpaulheil.com/turkey/Thermal%20Pool%20at%20Pamukkale%202.JPG
Sorry for the long lead-up, but I really want you to appreciate this. So picture this: a young couple touring a resort built on an ancient Roman site that still has hot springs after 2,000 years. Touring there during the off-season (meaning very few, if any other people were there with us). Add on this that this is in a nominally Muslim country.
Well, after a long day touring the ruins, we decided to take a dip at night. So we went to an indoor thermal (spring-fed) pool that was built basically like a grotto. We're all alone in there (its the off-season, remember) and, well, we started to get rather amourous. There was a part of this pool that had a walkway over it (sort of like a little cave), so we swim over there and then get naked. We both thought that there was nobody around and that we wouldn't get caught. A few minutes later, in walks the somebody. We get really quiet really quickly. Looking out from this indented area, we see that it is a night watchman. We became extremely quiet extremely quickly, because we knew that we'd get busted if we even caused the water to ripple. So we dared not even get dressed because we might cause a little sound. The guard was walking around like he was looking for something, but he didn't appear to notice us. He even walked directly over us and stood there for several minutes. (Although the western part of Turkey was fairly modernized, particularly in tourist spots like this, public nudity, much less public sex, was not generally acceptable)
He finally left. We got our swimsuits on and went back to our room. I personally think that he knew exactly what he was doing and exactly where we were and exactly what we were doing. But we'd never know that for sure.
Its not just a job, its an adventure!
to the lovely EW
