Cappadocia is great.  I have always wanted to visit this place ever since seeing a photograph of it for the first time.  The landscapes alone, the Fairy Chimney's and carved Valley's would be enough but throw into it underground cities and caves and churches and it makes it a feast for your eyes.  You really don't know where to look, you are constantly taking photo's because each corner brings with it another spectacular sight.
We arrived in the early morning, 1am to be precise, and where due to take the balloon ride at 5am.  We where quite happy when it got postponed and were able to sleep in a little.  The bedroom itself was carved into the rock, even the shower, and it gave it the 'Flintstone's' feel to it.  I've never slept in a cave room before and I kind of liked it.
The first tour we took was the 'Green' one.  It took us to an underground cities, these were used as places to stay when armies came through the area, and a 14km long gorge that has been used for religious purposes for years.  There are 20 known churches in the gorge, all small, and if you ask me if they just made one big one, it would have been a lot easier for everyone surely.  Beautiful walk though.  After we went to a lookout that overlooked the valley towards Goreme, the town that we stayed in and also the tourist center of Cappadocia, and finished with the oddworldly chimneys in another valley.  Dinner was at a local restaurant where I ordered a beef kebab that came in a pottery vase and Audrey had the eggplant something-a-rather.  Similar to London in respect to the familiarity with buildings and streets, Turkish food in very familiar.  It is probably from my times as a lad and stumbling out of a night club and grabbing a falafel or kebab to munch on.  Having said that, this variety of Turkish food is much better ...
The next morning the balloons where a go.  Up at 4:45am for a 6am take off for sunrise.  This meant rugging up as best that we could; 2 pairs of socks, 4 layers of clothing, beanie and gloves still wasn't enough to keep out the, it had to be, minus temperatures.  I have never been up in a balloon before, I hadn't even got close to one, and they are rather large.  They also get filled with hot air, so standing in the basket next to the flames was bringing the temperature up a couple of notched to at least -10C !!!  As we took off and rose slowly, the feeling was of numbness, my toes, my fingers, all numb, and of solitude (surprisingly).  It wasn't quiet and Audrey was next to me but it was just a different feeling from what I thought it would be.  Come on, you are hanging from a balloon for eff sake that only has hot air in it, I thought that I would be a little more hesitant with the flight, or drift as it should be called.  Along with the other 75,000 balloons it was a great sight, and Cappadocia from the air is really the only way to appreciate the splendor of the landscape.  And what about the landing, straight into the back of the trailer, no need to man-handle the basket in this instants.  We followed the balloon ride with the 'Red' tour which takes you closer around Goreme.  We visited the Open Air Museum, which is a cluster of 7 churches all hewn into the rock, and well as a tour of both a working carpet making plant (incredible to think that 1 carpet, hand made, and only 1m by 0.6m can take 3 months to build) and the famous pottery making place.  Both those places had items to sell that would make Bill Gates think twice about opening his wallet, both places had fantastic pieces that the price was justifiably also.  Audrey and I decided not to buy anything because we preferred to travel the world than to sit on a piece of carpet while eating from our plate of pottery.
A rest day followed, a much need one too, that allowed us to unwind and download photo's and plan accommodation for the next 2 weeks and just relax a bit.
Today was a walking day.  4 1/2 hours we wandered around the Valleys and up to the top of Uchisar for a great panoramic view of Cappadocia.  Now we are waiting for the overnight bus to take us down to Antalya, the Turkish Mediterranean, and the Lycan Way.  Hopefully more walking will happen, I still have a gut I need to lose :)