Pink couches and logic puzzles

I think I finished my last post while sipping coffee and sitting in the sunshine on the back of the boat.  Things only got better from there.  Breakfast was delicious especially this nice poached eggs and yoghurt thing (much better than it sounds).  The rest of the day was much of the same.  Lots of swimming and eating and lying in the sun.  We saw the sunken city but the water wasn't really smooth so you couldn't see very much.  You aren't allowed to swim or dive in the city because they want to preserve it.  But it seems that a steady stream of boats motoring past a hair's breath from the ruins is perfectly ok.

The area is all part of the old Lycian area and there was an old cemetery and castle thing so we wondered around there for a while.  I climbed a rock and made the mistake of putting my hand on a plant and then spent the next half hour pulling out prickles from my palms.  The cemetery is quite impressive.  It's a couple of thousand years old and a number of the graves are still mostly in tact.  They have upside down boat hulls on them to signify the person inside was a sailor.  The only disappointment was that we didn't really sail.  The skipper did put up the main sail and the gib on the trip home but he still had the motor going and he was really a bit crap at the whole sailing business.  The gib was flapping around all of the place and would occasionally collapse all together.

We spent our evening in Kas and just had dinner, a wander through the town and then a few of us had cocktails on a big pink couch.  I still felt like I was rocking slightly when we went to bed - and not just from the rather strong cocktail I had consumed.

Yesterday (Sunday) it was nightmare travel day.  We were picked up from the hotel in a largest van and spent nearly 4 hours in it to Antalya.  It was quite a nice drive along the coast where you would come across little beaches and inlets along the way.  I really wanted to stop and go for a swim.  The bus from Antalya to Konya was  a bigger bus and more comfortable but it was more than 5 hours which was  a bit hideous.  The scenery was quite nice - but not really enough to keep you occupied for 5 hours. 

Our achievements for the day were solving several logic puzzles that Charlie set for us, naming all 50 states of America and most of the African countries, and teaching several of the group to play yuka.  We could have done NZ provinces, but I don't think even I could name all of them so that seemed a bit too challenging.

One of Charlie's logic puzzles to keep you thinking:

A prison guard decides to give his inmates an opportunity to be set free.  He has a room with a switch that has two settings: on and off.  He will randomly select the prisoners to visit the room and it is possible that one prisoner could visit the room more than once before some prisoners have visited at all.  He will set the prisoners free when one person comes and tells him that all the prisoners have visited the room but if they are wrong, the game ends and they must all stay in prison.  The only communication the prisoners have is the on/off switch and they have no other way of finding out information.  All the prisoners are allowed to meet beforehand to discuss their strategy.  What should their strategy be to ensure that they go free?