Side (SEE-deh), on the Turkish
Mediterranean between Antalya and Alanya,
is now primarily a tourism resort, with its huge Hellenistic
theater,
fine museum in a restored Roman bath,
and ruins scattered behind the
beaches: two perfect one-kilometer crescents framing
the town on either side.
Several
decades ago, when I took this photo, the townfolk of Side made a
substantial part of their living by
fishing, and waited daily for the last boat to make it home to port.
