The early traffic along the coast roads, through Antalya and as far a Side (pronounced see-deh) was hectic and I was beginning to wonder if we would reach Konya the same day? Fortunately, soon as we turned-off the coast road, heading NE towards the mountain ranges we were mostly on our own. Naturally, our hire car is fitted with ordinary tyres so we were quite relieved not to find snow on the road surface when we went over the highest mountain pass at 1,850m/6,000ft. We're told Konya has more than 2 million people living there so it occupies quite a vast area of urbanisation. So much so, our printed Google Map directions accounted for nothing. Approaching Konya we were stopped at a police checkpoint. When I got out the car the police started gesticulating and I thought they wanted me to 'follow'. They didn't! We think, on seeing we were not 'ethnic' to the area they weren't interested in us and their gesticulations were actually chasing us off! Fortunately I had the Lat Long co-ordinates of the hotel so we sort-of 'followed' our GPS virtually all the way to the hotel, which turned out to be only 150m or so away from the tourist info' office in the centre of the city! (Well done Sue).
Next day, after a slightly shorter ride we made it to our hotel in Goreme, a family-run Cave hotel overlooking and within Gorme, which is not much bigger than a village.
