Travel !

Odd travelling on my own … with the postponement and drop outs …a bit like going back to Basel for work!

So the Gatwick zoo , missing the football and arriving later to see if the other game goes well!

Well we are delayed ! Three hours ! No -now two hours ! No -now we are off and avoiding Greece and going north and shouldn’t be too late! Bonus !
Loss - no insight into the football progress until later !

God what a flight ! It appeared to have a good amount young ones ! I witness one trying to chat two girls up …in the corridor aka aisle but as loud as if in a pub ! Fake tans already and weird pencilled thick grouch eyebrows!
A couple on flight of course all wearing a similar puce blue outfit…shirts and top !
It was a mixture of the older generation and those about to party !

I arrive - Forest drew ! In the taxi Arsenal are doing nothing ! They score ! Then Hammers score …oh no , VAR! Forest survive !

At hotel I wander around
Kaleici, Antalya's old town of narrow streets of Ottoman-era houses to the Hadrian's Gate, a Roman archway at the entrance into the old quarter. It’s not far from the hotel it seems !

The two façades of the gate have four columns each. Floral decorations adorn the gate and stylized heads of lions dominate the upper portion.
The two towers next to Hadrian’s Gate were not part of the initial plan.
Although the south tower was built not much later than the gate, its architecture is completely different.
The north tower, on the other hand, was built much later during the 13th-century
The passage of carts through the gate over centuries has left behind deep ruts at the base of the gate. 

But as with most things…. restoration of the gate was concluded in 1959.

Supposedly the
Queen of Sheba traveled through this gate - but she was believed to have lived about a millennium before Hadrian’s Gate was built.
So maybe it’s replaced an even older Gate ! Who knows !

Home - food and a beer ! And seemingly an early morning walk around the old city!
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