This was at Nigde, on the way to Antakya.

Young chicken on skewers (juicy,tender and delicious!) plus many assorted other choices.
The waiters at each road-diner stood over us, hands behind them, ready to bring other
dishes, drinks, as if we were at evening dining places.

The name is also on his shirt.  I wonder if the window has the address, which includes an
'010' I think.  I'd like to send them photos if anyone from Turkey knows.

Here's a a photo of the interior by Mary Ann, with a similar description of the lunch.

I think they were amused I was taking a picture of the diner.

While I neglected to take a photo of the infamous Well, used by Paul, it's
lurking behind the nearest support for the roof.

Another PBase page has a picture of the well, taken by MCampbell.

According to Wikimapia, which has an aerial view of Tarsus,
"A town gate from the Roman period is described as Cleopatra's Gate. It was the entrance of Tarsus,
a major Roman city of its time. In Roman times, people used to sail under the gate by boats when the
city was located at the Mediterranean coast. Today the sea is an approximate 10km away from
Cleopatra's Gate due to rivers filling the water."

Cleopatra came here in ~37 B.C.to meet Marc Anthony, and it's said that she arrived on a highly
decorated barge rowed up the Cydnus River (aka Nehri River) and would have had to enter by (or near)
this gate. The gate was actually demolished and rebuilt in 2 A.D. and then went through another
restoration ~1994 and looks nothing like the original, apparently.

Thanks to Dick Osseman for his explanation, at bottom of page, that these are probably solar water-
heating screens and tanks. I've added a closeup (next photo) to highlight the example Dick points
us to and to show the difference between sets used on two buildings.

I wonder why one set is so reflective and the other isn't...
  Maybe it's that the set on the right is turned the other way.

... at the far right is the school, where they played the piece via midi chimes? a few times, which
startled me, but it was to herald class breaks and the end of those!
  Here's a photo of one, and another one that includes the mountains.

This was the first tile floor mosaic (now wall) that I saw there.

For more info on floor mosaics by Romans and Greeks in Turkey, see this excellent site.

Our guide Aytuk got us into the museum on the day it was officially closed, and we were given
15 minutes to run through it (since a Chicago University group was at the end of a private
showing), so no time to take names from the plates, alas. Amazing we saw as much as we did!
As it was, I took pictures indoors for 12 minutes.

They're considered some of the finest in the Mediterranean.

The eye looks, actually, very benign -- as is sometimes the case with evil :-)

Could be it was a border(since these were often geometric designs), but if so it's a large border.

Terasias hunts a spotted leopard.

This is from the Megalopsychia Hunt Mosaic.

It's said that St. Luke owned the property and loaned it
to Peter and to Paul when they lived in the city for years.

St. Peter founded the Christian community here and it's believed to be the first church in the world.