Halicarnassus

"It may not be easy to visualize a crumbling ruin as one of the seven wonders of antique times. Every time I try to visualize Halicarnassus in my mind, childhood memories dance with laser shows and foam parties. In this noisy aquarium and the sea raging with techno music, with upside down fish images on souvenirs, could the architects of this peeled off, stolen, beaten and destroyed Mausoleum be Satyros ve Pytheos* in blue exile?"

• Satyros and Pytheos, a book on the mausoleum, begins "good fortune has bestowed the highest reward".