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Buyuk Berk Ayvalik

Ataturk bulvarI Kahramanlar Mah Kumsal, Sok No:1 Sarimsakli Ayvalik, Balikesir, 10425, Turkey

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Beware of Greeks bearing gifts

A travel blog entry by sarahimray

... is the big wooden horse. And haven't they got a nice big one at the entrance! Handily this one includes stairs and windows to look out of. I'm pretty sure neither were features of the original given the Greeks were trying to hide from the Trojans. But in Troy you shouldn't let the truth get in the way of a good story. The whole allure of the area is off the back of a story by Homer. Not Homer of ...

Marmaris to Ayvalik

A travel blog entry by kiwivolant

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... mainsail drops into when lowered) came untied and ended up halfway up the mast. As Bruce has an absolute phobia of heights yours truly had to don the bosuns chair and retrieve the offending rope. Not a problem except that he base of the bosuns chair is very slippery and it took considerable effort not to slip forward and be suspended by the ****** strap, and therefore do myself a rather delicate injury.
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Pergamon, Yah Mon!

A travel blog entry by billnpat

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... As we were passing through the town of Ismir on a four lane highway, an old white Fiat type sedan pulled alongside on the left. There was a 20 something girl in the passenger seat, and a forty something man driving. She pointed to the back left wheel, and he indicated it was wobbling. Being mechanically alert, I knew darned well there was nothing wrong with the back left wheel, so my scam alert came on instantly. I needed gas anyway, so I made a quick turn into a ...

Trojans, Romans, Ruins and Wrecks

A travel blog entry by billnpat

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... s east coast and the Gulf Islands, yet this bit of water 10 metres away from me has seen the likes of Odysseus, Athenian navies, Alexander the Great, Roman emperors and their navies, probably Saint Paul and other biblical characters, the infamy of the Crusaders, Byzantine navies, the Turks and Ottomans. Just over the hills to the northwest are the infamous battlefields of Gallipoli where Ataturk and his forces held off the Aussies and the Kiwis in WW I in one of the ...

The Night Bus South

A travel blog entry by koppers

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... population exchange between the two countries. At the time the agreement was signed, there was a substantial Greek population living in Turkey and a similarly sizable number of Turks living in Greece. The agreement required the two groups to, in essence, switch places: the Greek Orthodox population was forced back to Greece and the Muslims were sent packing to Turkey.

There are still remnants of the Greek settlement throughout the area, primarily ...

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