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Day 239 - The Ancient City
... out. He did walk him over to the young people working the check in. We rode the dolomus out to the main highway and were let off on the side of the road knowing we were to wait for a passing bus but unsure when what would happen.
We waived at a few white vans that looked like dolomuses and watched a lot of others and many buses trolling the route from Çanakkale to Troy and back. Within an hour a bus didn’t make the turn to Troy and instead stopped ...
Spiti mou, sweet spiti mou
Other than the thorough search by drugs police at the port in Mitilini ( :( ), and the massive queue in Lidl ( :(( ), the arrival and drive to Eresos are uneventful. Except, that is, for the constant smile on my face as I recognise, remember and anticipate all the wonderful places along the way like the twists and turns of a well known story. In short they are; the beautiful bay of Mitilini with its elegant old ...
Last Full Day in Assos!
... I went straight into town because he had to get something from the tailors and we needed to go food shopping. Tugay also wanted to go the barber but after setting me up on a bench in town with my book, he came back saying there was a huge line so we didn't get to do that. After we got food, we went home and Tugay started crazily running around the house trying to get it ready for everyone coming over later. He cleaned and he cooked dinner. I meanwhile showered ...
No Seriously, Everything Really is Beautiful!
Let me start out by saying, today was awesome! We went to Bozcaada, which is the only thing that I had really read about before I came here! All my touristy books mentioned this awesome little island, Bozcaada! So we (and by we, I mean, Tugay and his friends) organized a tour. The only unfortunate part of this whole thing was the tour van picked us up at 8:30am so no sleeping in for us. We met Nur, Ayşegül, Seher and Necip and, after ...
Day 39
Well what a day of events it was today.
First of all we arrived at Anzac Cove about 6am.
There was a Dawn Service for the Veterans as we approached Anzac Cove.
At 10am was the Anzac Cove Memorial Service led by the Captain and senior officers and a wreath laying ceremony.
I was unable to go as I was still not feeling well and would not have been able to cope with the heat and the emotion of it all.
I also ...


