Public buses in Turkey are great. Comfy seat. Own TV. Free snacks at lunch and drink in afternoon. Great views. Air con. Spacious.

Nobody spoke English to us for about 9 hours and we were travelling 400km! We had a bus ticket. We showed everyone. We were dropped at the bus stop restaurant at 10.45am and waited. The bus was late but we hopped on at 12.30pm as it filled for gas. We gave away our ticket to the steward and we needed to point to what drink we wanted from the cart. He spoke no English. We hopped off the bus at a big bus terminal in Izmir at 5.45pm. As soon as we did, "Selcuk?!" "Selcuk?!" We nodded. That was our next destination. Someone nicely took us to our next bus and was talking 'simple' Turkish to us. We stared blankly. He got coins out if his pocket and shook his head, indicating we don't need to pay today - because we already had. We waited on that mini bus for it to fill for 30mins before heading to Selcuk. Pronounced sool-check.

In Selcuk at 7.15pm and the sun is still shinning, it's warm. A sign reads 'Lisa. Sean.' Our next driver and we're on another bus seating 30. It's just for us. 20 mins and we're there. We'll make sunset in Kusadasi. Pronounced koo-soo-dar-see. Say it fast.

Kuşadası is a resort town on the seaside of Turkey's Aegean coast. On the map we are located a little further than the end of the blue line. Continuing that straight line to the seaside and where there's a little sticky-outy bit, that's us.