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On the shores of the Dardanelles
Tonight I am sleeping in Canakkale (Sha-knock-ah-lay), which is between Gallipoli and Troy and lies on the Dardenelles, near the Aegean Sea. We arrived at the "Golden Hour" so I raced up to my room to drop off my gear and then back outside to catch the sunset.
We left Istanbul early this morning and spent much of the day on the bus. We drove west along the edge of Europe before crossing into Asia Minor. Around ...
Gallipoli Part II - A lot closer to home
Arrogance of the British commanding officer Wellighton, war pride or just zealous drive to victory? Whatever excuse or reason u heard or read, one thing remains the same, massive n unnecessary loss of human lives! Do we ever learn from these war history ...
Gallipoli Part 1
Greeted by our guide Hassan and his visiting cousin Melvert. We left our hotel in the morning and started Gallipoli part one memorial journey. We visited the Irish and British landings at V and W beach or otherwise known as Landcashire Landing. It was a bloodshed event on ...
Impressive Troy but immortalised in memory..
Arrived into Gallipolu a small base town that usually swamped with Aussies, Kiwis, Pomms n other during ANZAC day. A very cozy harbour town overlooking the Dardanelles with a much bigger town on the opposite shore called Cannakale. This has been a battleground to control shipping lane into Bosphorus and Black Sea for millennium ! Hollywood movie Troy has set ...
Storm of epic proportions
Today was war history day. Our drive south passed the Sea of Marmara, to Gallipoli on the Dardenelles. (it's like eating caramel flan to speak these names- they slide so smoothly across your tongue.) As it began to pour rain, we stopped to visit the WWI ANZAC site, where the Australian and New Zealand Army Corp were battled by the Turks for months. The Allied forces came ashore north of where they intended to beach, and faced steep cliffs ...
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