Çeşme & Alaçatı

Can we see the wind? Of course not; but in Alaçatı we see what it sways, what it turns, whom it calls to the sea. On this shore at the tip of the peninsula, facing the island of Chios, the wind is not a guest but the host… For centuries the stone windmills on the hills ground wheat with its power; today the same wind drives colorful sails across the bays. Across the water, the silhouette of Chios is always there; the narrow strait between the two shores has shared the same wind for centuries…