Anzac House Youth Hostel Canakkale

so from selcuk i headed to a town called Assos (actually, it's called Behramkale, Assos is its greek name). assos is on the northern part of turkey's agean coast: the greek island of lesvos (which i think is lesbos) take up a lot of the sea-view. the name of the state it's in, Çannakale (also the name of the small city i'm sitting in now) is the turkish name for the Dardanelles. people were surprised that i was going to assos: while it's definately a tourist destination (when you enter the to...

Beck: Well, we've done what every Aussie in Turkey must do: visit Gallipoli. Although the Turkish name ıs actually Gellibolu. We watched a documentary about it last night in Selçuk and that was really depressing and revolting. Seeing the actual battle area today was really weird - kınd of like seeing a movie set or a place from a novel, except of course everything has changed a lot. The vegetation has all grown back, the trenches have caved in or shallowed out, or had new wood put in them to ...

I got up about 5.30am and had a quick shower then went around the corner to the Hassle Free office to get picked up by the coach. We drove around for a bit picking up other passengers then made our way out of town. Its so clean and organised here - the tulips are in bloom and they're planted neatly and colour coded along the side of the road... I slept for a bit on the bus then we stopped for brekky at a roadhouse along the side of the road where i had some soup.... more sleeping we eventuall...

The circuit of Turkey had one last stop, a visit to Chanakkale, the gateway to Gallipoli and Troy, where two major battles were fought. As in all battles, there were reasons and then there were the reasons for war. First, I went to Troy, where the imagination was needed to picture the Homeric epic, as the ruins from that era were sparse and in poor shape. A couple citadel walls were left to see. As Troy occurs in at least ten different layers piled on top of one another, interpretation was di...

Well our main aim in Canakkale was to go out to the gallipoli peninsula and pay our respects and check out the landscape and memorials for ourselves. We took a ferry and a van over there and spent the day going from anzac cove , up the hill all the way to chunnick bair, stopping at memorials along the way and the trenches which although filled in a bit are still there in a lot of places. It was moving to think of the bravery of our boys, only to fail and sad to think that they formed a bond w...

Our journey began with Hassle Free Tours picking us up from our hotel. We hopped on the mini-bus with all the other travellers. There were many Aussies and Kiwis as well as a couple of Canadians and English. We got talking to 2 older ladies from Hervey Bay, QLD who were very funny. They had a story for everything and had travelled extensively. Wherever in the world there was a disaster, they would shortly follow to get a good travel bargain. So they'd been to Bali, USA, Kenya, and Egypt etc M...