We had a rain storm to wake up to this morning, and oh bother, we had a leak - water dribbling (pouring!) in over the dinette! What we found was that if the Boomer is parked absolutely flat, which is very rare, rain water will pool around the two places where the solar panel wiring enters the roof. Another word with the builder, he hadn't totally sealed the spots when he had installed the extra solar panel in June last year. It took an hour to fix, then on the way again. Dried out wet gear later.

First stop was at Meryemana, a religious centre near the top of an adjacent mountain, with a tiny church built over the ruins of the house where the Virgin Mary lived out the end of her days . A lovely spot up in the forest, though we could imagine pretty wild before the advent of a bitumen tourist drive, dozens of tour buses and car parks and a police station!

Next to Ephesus. We had been here in 1976, and the whole place was still recognisable, albeit underneath the thousands of tourists from all over the world. A lot more restoration work has been done and more areas opened. One of the things we discovered is that a housing area has had a lot of extra work done and is under an enormous cover to keep the elements out. It also keeps out the tourists, unless you pay extra to look at it, but you only find that out once you get to it. I guess it reduces the traffic through that area - we didn't go in.

The rest of the long day was spent travelling to Troy. Some six lane motorway, some goat tracks over mountains, all on the same route. Mountain scenery quite lively.